author

Emily J. Jenkinson

b. 1879

Best known for the novel Barbara Lynn: A Tale of the Dales and Fells, this early-20th-century writer brought the landscapes and everyday life of northern England into fiction. Little biographical information appears to survive online, which gives the work an added sense of rarity.

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Barbara Lynn: A Tale of the Dales and Fells.

Barbara Lynn: A Tale of the Dales and Fells.

by Emily J. Jenkinson

About the author

Emily J. Jenkinson is credited as the author of Barbara Lynn: A Tale of the Dales and Fells, a novel published in 1914. Catalog records and digitized editions identify her as born in 1879, but beyond that, confirmed details about her life are scarce.

Her surviving work suggests a strong interest in rural settings, local character, and the rhythms of community life. Barbara Lynn has remained available through public-domain and reprint editions, helping preserve her name for modern readers even though she is not widely documented.

Because reliable biographical sources are so limited, it is safest to remember her through the novel itself: a period story rooted in place, family, and landscape.