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Annabel Huth Jackson

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

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

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 Huth Jackson, using her married name.[1][2]

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 Marie, later Anne Fremantle; and Claire, later Countess de Loriol Chandieu.[citation needed]

References

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  • Jackson, Annabel Huth (1932). A Victorian Childhood. London: Methuen: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS. Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement
  • Wood, Alan (1957). "18, author cited as Annabel Jackson". Bertrand Russell The Passionate Skeptic A Biography. Simon And Schuster.
  • David, Dierdre, ed. (2001). The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (PDF). Cambridge University Press.
  • Fremantle, Anne (1971). Three Cornered Heart. London: New York, Viking Press. ISBN 9780670706969.
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References

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  1. ^ A Victorian Childhood, goodreads.com. Accessed 15 February 2024.
  2. ^ David, Deirdre (2001). A Victorian Childhood. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521646192.