Jennifer Lash
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Jennifer Lash | |
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Born | Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne Lash 27 February 1938 Chichester, Sussex, England |
Died | 28 December 1993 | (aged 55)
Other names | Jini Fiennes |
Occupation(s) | Novelist, painter |
Spouse | |
Children | 7, including Ralph, Martha, Magnus, Sophie, and Joseph Fiennes |
Parent(s) | Henry Alleyne Lash Joan Mary Moore |
Relatives | Hero Fiennes Tiffin (grandson) |
Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne Lash Fiennes (27 February 1938 – 28 December 1993), also known as Jini Fiennes, was an English novelist and painter.[1]
In 1961, she published The Burial, her first novel, at the age of 23. Lash was regarded as one of the most promising young people among England's artists at the time. Upon meeting Lash in Suffolk, Dodie Smith, who wrote The Hundred and One Dalmatians, remarked that Lash was "almost too interesting to be true".[2]
Life and career
Lash was born at
In the mid-1950s, she met the lyric poet and gallery owner Iris Birtwistle in Churt, Surrey, where they were both living. Shortly afterwards, when Birtwistle moved to Walberswick, Suffolk, Lash went with her and, encouraged by Birtwistle, began work on her first novel, The Burial. Birtwistle renamed Lash "Jini" and introduced her to her future husband Mark Fiennes,[5][6] whom she married in 1962,[7][8] the year in which her second book The Climate of Belief was published. There were seven children of the marriage: actors Ralph Fiennes and Joseph Fiennes, film makers Martha Fiennes and Sophie Fiennes, composer Magnus Fiennes, Jacob Fiennes, a conservation manager, and foster son Michael Emery, an archaeologist. The family frequently relocated and lived in Suffolk, Wiltshire, Ireland and London. Lash wrote four more novels over the next 20 years: The Prism (1963), Get Down There and Die (1977), The Dust Collector (1979) and From May to October (1980).
Lash's paintings were featured in several exhibitions in The Penwith Galleries in St Ives, The Halesworth Gallery and Westleton Chapel Gallery in Suffolk.
In the late 1980s, Lash was diagnosed with breast cancer. While in remission from the disease, she traveled to
References
- ^ Sampson, Antony (22 October 2011). "Obituary: Jini Fiennes". The Independent. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ Kenneth, Powell (4 January 2005). "Obituary: Mark Fiennes". The Independent. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ Lundy, Darryl. "Brigadier Henry Alleyne Lash". The Peerage. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ISBN 978-0-3335-4577-5.
- ISBN 978-0-0995-4659-7.
- ^ Stanford, Peter (23 June 2006). "Obituary: I.M. Birtwistle". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ "Obituary: Mark Fiennes". The Telegraph. London. 5 January 2005. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ISBN 978-0-3335-4577-5.