George de Horne Vaizey

Jessie Bell (1857 – 23 January 1917), later Jessie Mansergh, was an English writer born in Liverpool, who wrote under her married name Mrs George de Horne Vaizey.

Life

De Horne Vaizey was the daughter of Scottish insurance broker David Bell, and his wife, Elizabeth Morris Barton, and had six siblings, four brothers and two sisters. She married Henry Mansergh, a cotton broker, in 1883. They had a daughter, Gwyneth Alice, in 1886. She met her second husband, George de Horne Vaizey, on a Mediterranean cruise, which she won in a short story competition. They married in Liverpool on 19 March 1898. Her son, named George after his father, also became a writer.

Views

De Horne Vaizey was quoted in Housekeeper magazine in 1909 on the differences between men and women, saying: "I'm convinced that men would be smaller minded still if they were in our place, so it's not as big as it seems. It's our life's work to do the small things, to save the small sums, and haggle over pennies, while men deal with the great affairs of life."

Bibliography

A Girl in Springtime (1897) (published under the name of Mrs. Henry Mansergh)

A Rose Coloured Thread (1898) (published under the name of Mrs. Henry Mansergh)

About Peggy Saville (1900) (originally published under the name of Jessie Mansergh)

Sisters Three (1900)

More About Peggy (1901)

Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story (1901)

A Houseful of Girls (1902)

Pixie O'Shaughnessy (1902)

More About Pixie (1903)

The Daughters of a Genius: A Story of Brave Endeavour (1903)

How Like the King: The Week-end of Mr. Septimus Edward (1903)