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