A Woman Writes About the Sea
SUPPOSE all of us who love reading know that warm, comfortable feeling of settling down to a book with the thought "This is a book after my own heart." I had it just recently, when I picked up a book I had read years ago, picked it up with the intention of flicking over the pages and recalling what it was about. But in no time I was deep in it, greedily devouring every word. I must confess that
a story of adventure at sea, especially in the days of sail, is for me "a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner." Give me a book about the China teaclippers, or about piracy in the Spanish Main, and in no time I’m not in this world at all. So you can imagine the effect on me of a title like Moonraker, or The Female Pirate and Her
Friends. And it’s by a woman, F, Tennyson Jesse, one of three women who write supremely well about ships and the sea. How she gained her knowledge of ships, or what is the spring of her interest in them, I don’t know, for nothing I know of her life connects her with the sea. Perhaps Tennyson Jess3 learnt about ships much as I did-from books, But she writes about them like an old hand.-("A Few Minutes With Women Novelists: F. Tennyson Jesse," by Margaret Johnston, 2Y A.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 98, 9 May 1941, Page 5
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246A Woman Writes About the Sea New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 98, 9 May 1941, Page 5
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