&nbsp Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse (1888-1958) was a “British lady reporter,” grandniece of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, fiction writer, a keen observer of human nature, and one of Britain’s best crime journalists of all time. As a young woman, she was a war correspondent on the Front. Jesse was a prolific writer and had several other fiction works to her credit. An old biography of Ms. Jesse is worth tracking down: Portrait of Fryn: A Biography of F. Tennyson Jesse by Joanna Colenbrander (London: Sterling Pub. Co., 1984).