Jennifer Lash

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." Born at Chichester, Sussex on 27 February 1938 to Joan Mary Moore, who was of Irish Catholic descent, and Brigadier Henry Alleyne Lash, a British colonial officer, Jennifer Lash lived in India where her father was stationed until the age of 6. When her family returned...