Annabel Huth Jackson
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,_1907.jpg) Mrs. Huth Jackson (née Annabel Grant Duff), by John Singer Sargent (1907) | |
| Born | Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff 25 December 1870 |
| Died | 12 January 1944 |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, writer, socialite |
| Notable work | A Victorian Childhood (1932 memoir) |
| Spouse | Frederick Huth Jackson |
| Children | 4, including Anne Fremantle |
| Father | M. E. Grant Duff |
| Relatives | Arthur Hobhouse (son-in-law) |
Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff, Mrs Jackson (25 December 1870 – 12 January 1944) was a Scottish poet, writer, pacifist, and high society hostess. She published her memoir A Victorian Childhood in 1932 with Methuen Publishing under the pen name Annabel Huth Jackson, using her married name.
Early life and education
[edit]Annabel Duff was the eldest daughter of Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff and Anna Julia Webster. Her father was a Scottish politician and writer, who was Governor of Madras during her childhood in India. She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College.[1][2]
Writing and public life
[edit]John Singer Sargent painted a portrait of Huth Jackson in 1907. Huth Jackson was an anti-suffragist, but she exercised her voting rights when they were won.[1] She was a member of the executive committee of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF),[3] and she was active in raising funds for war relief.[1] Her childhood friend Bertrand Russell[4] dined at her table after he was released from prison for being a conscientious objector.[5] In 1921, she was a member of the British delegations to WILPF meetings in Vienna in 1921[6] and in Dublin in 1926.[1] She supported sex education and family planning, saying "Birth Control is very literally the A B C of all social improvement."[3]
In 1932 she published a memoir, A Victorian Childhood,[7] with the first line, "All people who possess a memory should write their recollections when they reach the age of sixty."[8]
Personal life
[edit]In 1895, Duff married Frederick Huth Jackson, a partner in the private bank, Frederick Huth and Sons.[1] They had one son, Frederick, who married Helen Vinogradoff, daughter of the distinguished historian Sir Paul Vinogradoff, and three daughters: Konradin, later Lady Arthur Hobhouse; Anne Marie, later Anne Fremantle;[9] and Claire, later Countess de Loriol Chandieu.[10] They lived at Possingworth in Sussex during World War I.[1]
Her husband died in 1921, and Annabel Huth Jackson died in 1944, at the age of 73.[1][11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Triggs, Sheila. "Annabel Huth Jackson". Women Vote Peace. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ David, Deirdre (2001). The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. ISBN 9780521646192.
- ^ a b Jackson, Annabel (16 March 1923). "Women in the Grip of Clothes". Daily Herald. p. 4. Retrieved 6 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Russell, Bertrand (1 September 2009). Autobiography. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-22380-9.
- ^ Wood, Alan (1957). "18, author cited as Annabel Jackson". Bertrand Russell The Passionate Skeptic A Biography. Simon and Schuster.
- ^ Congress of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (1921). Report of the Third International Congress of Women, Vienna, July 10-17, 1921. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. p. 310.
- ^ "Books of the Day: Frank Memories". The Guardian. 31 October 1932. p. 5. Retrieved 6 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Jackson Annabel Huth (1932). A Victorian Childhood. p. 1.
- ^ Fremantle, Anne (1971). Three Cornered Heart. London: New York, Viking Press. ISBN 9780670706969.
- ^ "Mr. L. de Loriol and Miss Huth Jackson". The Daily Telegraph. 24 July 1935. p. 17. Retrieved 6 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mrs. Clara Annabel Caroline Huth Jackson". Western Gazette. 3 March 1944. p. 4. Retrieved 6 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
[edit]- A Victorian Childhood. OCLC 4628070.
- "A Victorian Childhood by Annabel Huth Jackson". Solar Press. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
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