Jennifer Lash
| Jennifer Lash | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne Lash 27 February 1938 Chichester, Sussex, England |
| Died | 28 December 1993 (aged 55) , Wiltshire, England |
| Cause of death | Breast cancer |
| Other names | Jini Fiennes |
| Occupation | Novelist, painter |
| Spouse(s) | Mark Fiennes (m. 1962) |
| Children |
Ralph Fiennes Joseph Fiennes Martha Fiennes Sophie Fiennes Magnus Fiennes |
Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne Lash (27 February 1938 – 28 December 1993; also known as Jini Fiennes) was an English novelist and painter.
In 1961, she published her first novel, The Burial, at the age of 23. Lash was widely regarded as one of the most promising young people among England's up and coming artists at the time. Upon meeting Jennifer Lash in Suffolk, Dodie Smith, who wrote The Hundred and One Dalmatians, remarked that Lash was "almost too interesting to be true".
Lash was born at Chichester, Sussex on 27 February 1938, the daughter of Joan Mary (née Moore) and Brigadier Henry Alleyne Lash. Lash lived in India, where her father was stationed until the age of 6. Her uncle Bill Lash was the Bishop of Bombay from 1947 to 1961. When her family returned to England, they settled down in Surrey. Raised a Roman Catholic, Lash attended boarding school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and continued on to Farnham Art School. When she was 16 years old, her studies were cut short by family problems. She discontinued her education and moved to London where she supported herself with odd jobs to support her artistic pursuits.
In the mid 50s 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 also introduced her to her future husband, Mark Fiennes, whom she married in 1962, the year in which her second book The Climate of Belief was published. There were 7 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 a foster son, Michael Emery, an archaeologist. The family frequently relocated and lived in Suffolk, Wiltshire, Ireland and London. Lash went on to write four more novels over the next twenty years. They are: The Prism (1963), Get Down There and Die (1977), The Dust Collector (1979) and From May to October (1980).
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