Sara D. (Sara Davis) Jenkins

Sara D. Jenkins, also listed as Sara Davis Jenkins, is a little-documented author whose surviving record online is centered on her book The Prose Marmion: A Tale of the Scottish Border. The Online Books Page credits her with that 1903 adaptation, and Project Gutenberg also lists the work under her name.

Her best-known book reworks Scott’s Marmion into prose, suggesting a practical, reader-friendly approach rather than a scholarly one. That kind of adaptation was often meant to make older classics easier to read and teach, and Jenkins’s work fits that tradition well.

Very little confirmed biographical information about her life appears in the reliable sources found here, so it is safest to remember her through the work itself: a concise retelling that helped keep a famous Romantic-era story in circulation for new readers.