Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff

Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff (25 December 1870 – 12 January 1944) was a poet, writer and high society hostess. She published her memoir A Victorian Childhood in 1932 with Methuen Publishing.

Mrs. Huth Jackson (née Annabel Grant Duff), John Singer Sargent, 1907

She was the eldest daughter of Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff and Anna Julia Webster. She was the author of A Victorian Childhood, which was published in 1932, under the pen name Annabel Jackson.

In 1894, she married Frederick Huth Jackson, a partner in the private bank, Frederick Huth and Sons. 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, later Anne Fremantle; and Claire, later Countess de Loriol Chandieu.

References

• "(Clara) Annabel (Caroline) Huth JACKSON, nee GRANT DUFF?" (1870 – 1944 Jan 12) (1932). A Victorian Childhood.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Jackson, Annabel Huth (1932). A Victorian Childhood. London: Methuen. Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement
• Wood, Alan. "18, author cited as Annabel Jackson". Bertrand Russell The Passionate Skeptic A Biography.
• David, Dierdre, ed. (2001). The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (PDF). Cambridge University Press.
• Fremantle, Anne (1971). Three Cornered Heart. London.

External links

• A Victorian Childhood.
• "A Victorian Childhood".