‘You are my heart’s delight’
Susannah Clapp, 7 June 1984
A Portrait of Fryn: A Biography of F. Tennyson Jesse
by Joanna Colenbrander.
Deutsch, 305 pp., £12.95, March 1984,0 233 97572 1 Show More
by Joanna Colenbrander.
Deutsch, 305 pp., £12.95, March 1984,
“... F. Tennyson Jesse was ‘ideally beautiful. I have never seen a lovelier girl.’ A sketch in Joanna Colenbrander’s biography shows a flat, winsome face with wide, rather fishy eyes; her thin limbs are splayed out with flapperish elegance. It may be that her attractions – a fat bundle of love-letters was destroyed when she died, and Mrs ... ”
