Sample of authors
Jesse, F. Tennyson
A versatile English writer and playwright, F. Tennyson Jesse (1888–1958) also worked as a journalist, drawer, and amateur criminologist. She was known under a few variations of her name – born Wynifried Margaret Jesse, her given name often spelled Winifred. As a journalist, she sometimes called herself Wynifried Margaret Tennyson, though her obituaries mentioned her as Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Har...
Literary figures
Jane Tennison
Gender: Female
A British police detective, originally the main character in a TV-series scripted by Lynda La Plante who wrote a handful of novels about her. On TV she was portrayed by Helen Mirren, and is thus described like her in the books: a middle-aged, well-groomed woman, who is also a tough and realistically portrayed police officer. Later, La Plante has written a series of novels that describe...