Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff

Mrs. Huth Jackson (née Annabel Grant Duff), John Singer Sargent, 1907

Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff (25 December 1870 – 12 January 1944) was a poet, writer and high society hostess. She published her memoir A Victorian Childhood in 1932 with Methuen Publishing.

She was the eldest daughter of Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff and Anna Julia Webster. She was the author of A Victorian Childhood, which was published in 1932, under the pen name Annabel Jackson.

In 1894, she married Frederick Huth Jackson, a partner in the private bank, Frederick Huth and Sons. They had one son, Frederick who married Helen Vinogradoff, daughter of the distinguished historian Sir Paul Vinogradoff, and three daughters: Konradin, later Lady Arthur Hobhouse; Anne, later Anne Fremantle; and Claire, later Countess de Loriol Chandieu.

References[]

• "(Clara) Annabel (Caroline) Huth JACKSON, nee GRANT DUFF?" (1870 – 1944 Jan 12) (1932). A Victorian Childhood.
• Jackson, Annabel Huth (1932). A Victorian Childhood. London: Methuen. Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement
• Wood, Alan. "18, author cited as Annabel Jackson". Bertrand Russell The Passionate Skeptic A Biography.
• David, Dierdre, ed. (2001). The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (PDF). Cambridge University Press.
• Fremantle, Anne (1971). Three Cornered Heart. London.

External links[]

• A Victorian Childhood.
• "A Victorian Childhood".

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