Ada Maria Jenyns

Ada Maria Jenyns, also known as Mrs. Robert Jocelyn or Ada Maria Jocelyn (7 December 1860 – 18 February 1931),[1] was a British Victorian novelist.[2]

Ada Maria Jenyns
Born7 December 1860
Aldershot, England
Died18 February 1931
LanguageEnglish
Years active1888 to c.1901
SpouseRobert Jocelyn, 7th Earl of Roden
ChildrenCaptain Robert Soame Jocelyn, 8th Earl of Roden

Lady Julian Mary Jocelyn

Lady Marcia Valda Jocelyn
RelativesSoame Gambier Jenyns (father) Rita Thompson (mother)

Biography

Ada Maria Jenyns was born 7 December 1860 in Aldershot, Hampshire, in north-east England to father Soame Gambier Jenyns (1826–873) and mother Rita Thompson. Her paternal grandfather was George Jenyns (1795–1876), Esquire of Bottisham Hall. Her father was an army colonel,[3] and her parents were married in 1859. She had a sister named Florence.[4] In 1882, she married Robert Jocelyn, a soldier and later the 7th Earl of Roden.[3]

The Jocelyns had three children. Their only boy was Captain Robert Soame Jocelyn, 8th Earl of Roden (September 1883 – October 1956).[5] The couple's two daughters were Julian Mary (December 1885 – 1973) and Marcia Valda (January 1891 – 1972)[6] Marcia married first Robert Barclay Black and then in 1924 Eric Miles, who had a long military career, retiring as a major general.[7]

Career

Writers Ouida and George Whyte-Melville are said to have been her literary inspirations. Jenyns compiled 19 works over her 23-year career.[2]

  • £100,000 versus Ghosts: A Novel (1888)
  • A Distracting Guest: A Novel (1889)
  • The M.F.H.'s Daughter (1890)
  • The Criton Hunt Mystery (1890)
  • A Big Stake: A Novel (1892)
  • Drawn Blank: A Novel (1892)
  • Only a Horse Dealer: A Novel (1893)
  • For One Season Only: A Sporting Novel (1893)
  • Run to Ground: A Sporting Novel (1894)
  • Pamela's Honeymoon: A Novel (1894)
  • A Dangerous Brute: A Sporting Sketch (1895)
  • Juanita Carrington: A Sporting Sketch (1896)
  • A Regular Fraud: A Novel (1896)
  • Only a Flirt: A Novel (1897)
  • Only a Love Story (1897)
  • Lady Mary's Experiences: A Novel (1897)
  • Miss Rayburn's Diamonds (1898)
  • Henry Massinger: A Novel (1899)
  • The Sea of Fortune (1901)

See also

References
  1. Coe, Douglas (August 2019). "The later Earls of Roden" (PDF).
  2. "At the Circulating Library Author Information: Ada Maria Jocelyn". www.victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  3. Sutherland, John (1990). The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. p. 336. ISBN 0804718423.
  4. Burke, Bernard (1882). Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 1. Harrison. p. 869.
  5. "North Irish Horse – Gallery – North Irish Horsemen – Jocelyn". www.northirishhorse.com.au. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  6. Lodge, Edmund (1907). The peerage, baronetage, knightage & companionage of the British Empire for 1907. London: Kelly's Directories. p. 1519.
  7. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp100570/lady-marcia-valda-miles-nee-jocelyn National Portrait Gallery, photo of Lady Marcia Valda Miles


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