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 to...
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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, an Irish Catholic, and Brigadier Henry Alleyne Lash, a British colonial officer, she lived in India where her father was stationed until the age of 6. When her family returned to England, they settled down in Surrey. Raised a Roman Catholic, Lash attended boarding school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and continued on to Farnham Art School. When she was 16 years old, her studies were cut short by family problems. She...
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