British criminologist and writer
Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Harwood (born Wynifried (Winifred) Margaret Jesse; 1 March 1888 – 6 August 1958) was an English journalist, author and criminologist.
Early life.
She was the second of three daughters of the Rev. Eustace Tennyson D'Eyncourt Jesse (1853–1928), vicar of St Peter Kirkley, and his wife Edith Louisa James (1866–1941). Her paternal grandmother was Emilia Tennyson. 
Her older sister, Stella Mary Jesse (1887–1942), was an actress, and married in 1929 Eric Andrew Simson, who wrote under the name Laurence Kirk. She wrote a novel, "Eve in Egypt" (1929), as Jane Starr. Her younger sister, Edith Mary Ermyntrude was born in 1890, and died in 1892, in South Africa. 
The family's life was itinerant. Eustace Jesse left Kirkley in 1890. The family had an interlude in South Africa, sailing there at the end of 1891, and staying in Cape Town and Grahamstown, as Eustace Jesse sought a clerical appointment. He moved in 1893 to St Stephen's Church on Guernsey, as a curate. In 1898 he was a chaplain at Marsala in Sicily, for a year. From 1900 for three years he was a licentiate in the Diocese of Colombo. Then he was a curate at St George's Cathedral, Georgetown from 1905 to 1907, after that returning to Ceylon, at Polwatte.
After attending day schools, Wynifried Jesse aged 18 went, while her father was in British Guiana, to the Forbes School of Painting at Newlyn, Cornwall, run by Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes. "Fryn" is a self-made contraction of "Wynifried", which she adopted at this period. She did not return home. She worked for a time as a painter, exhibiting in Liverpool and Leeds, and she illustrated a book.
Journalist.
Jesse moved to London in 1911 and found work as a journalist. She wrote for the "Daily Mail" and "The Times".
After an accident in a pusher configuration aeroplane, Jesse lost the use of her right hand, and used a prosthetic. She learned to type her left hand alone, and picked up her career. She was treated with morphia for pain relief, became dependent, and was a patient of Armando Child to cope with the habit. She for the rest of her life suffered from periods of depression.
Jesse reported on the German attacks on Belgium in the First World War for "Collier's Weekly", in November 1914. She was in a group of American journalists: E. Alexander Powell, Joseph Medill Patterson and the photographer Donald C. Thompson, and witnessed the siege of Antwerp.
Later life.
Frederick W. Hilles who met Jesse at dinner in 1930 described her in his diary as "blonde with a hard face &amp; a tremendous sense of her importance in things intellectual." With her husband, she travelled widely in the two decades after her marriage. She associated with Somerset Maugham and E. Phillips Oppenheim on the French Riviera. She died at home of a heart attack on 6 August 1958 at 11 Melina Place, St John's Wood, London.
Books.
Crime.
"Murder and its Motives" (Heinemann, 1924) divided killers into six categories based on their motivations: those who murder for Gain, Revenge, Elimination, Jealousy, Conviction and Lust of killing. This classification of motive was quoted in 1958 by the criminologist Marvin Wolfgang. The forensic scientist John Glaister suggested sex should be a seventh category. The classification has been said to anticipate that in the FBI "Crime Classification Manual". The pathologist Francis Camps was complimentary about Jesse's standing as a criminologist.
Jesse contributed introductions to cases in the "Notable British Trials" series.
Also "Comments on Cain" (1948), on the trials of Harold Wolcott, Reginald Ivor Hinks and the serial killer Eugen Weidmann
Her novels include "A Pin to See the Peepshow" (London, W. Heinemann Ltd, 1934; Virago Modern Classics; British Library Women Writers), a fictional treatment of the case of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters. She also edited the British edition of "The Baffle Book, A Parlour Game of Mystery and Detection" (1930), a crime puzzle book by the Americans Lassiter Wren and Randle McKay.
Fiction.
Not including " A Pin to See the Peepshow", Jesse wrote nine novels.
An early story was "The Dog Decides", published in "The Idler" in 1911. Short story collections:
The 1924 story "Thirty Pieces of Silver", based on the biblical betrayal, was often reprinted, sometimes as the variant "Treasure Trove".
Plays.
Jesse co-wrote six plays with H. M. Harwood (her husband from 1918), and three more on her own.
Marriage.
Fryniwyd Jesse married Harold Marsh Harwood (1874–1959), a businessman and theatre manager, in September 1918. The marriage was kept secret until 1922; a guest of Arnold Bennett for dinner at the Savoy Hotel on New Year's Eve 1920, she went as Miss Tennyson Jesse. It was Harwood who wished for secrecy, since he was concerned to retain access to the son he had fathered with a married woman. Fryniwyd miscarried three times, the couple having no children.
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