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Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse (born Wynifried [also recorded as Winifred] Margaret Jesse, 1888 - 6 August 1958) was an English criminologist, journalist and author (she also wrote as Wynifried Margaret Tennyson). She was the second of three daughters of the Reverend Eustace Tennyson D'Eyncourt Jesse, and a great-niece of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. She married Harold Marsh Harwood (1874-1959), a businessman and theatre manager, in September 1918.

Her most notable books include A Pin To See the Peepshow (Virago Modern Classics), a fictional treatment of the case of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, and Murder & Its Motives (London, W. Heinemann Ltd., 1924). She contributed many cases to the Notable British Trials series, such as the trial of serial killer John Christie and the controversy surrounding the hanging of his neighbour, Timothy Evans. She also reported on the German attacks on Belgium in the First World War for Collier's Weekly (http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/E_Alexander_Powell/E_Alexander_Powell_02.htm ; http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Antwerp_Colliers/Antwerp2.htm).

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