A Jewel(l) of a find

A Jewel(l) of a find

Back in 2016, I worked with the Jewell family editing their grandfather Norman Parsons Jewell’s manuscript recalling his time On Call in Africa in War and Peace, 1910-1932. It opened new windows on the First World War in Africa and has since led to further research. The book also contains the story of his wife Sydney – who, as a young girl, published poetry and sent a book to Queen Victoria. She was also one of the first women to attend Trinity College Dublin as a student before travelling to Seychelles where she got married and then moving to Africa during World War 1.

Mr Jewell and the Crown Jewels feature in The Hidden Sun – a light adventure-suspense romance set on Cyprus during the British occupation of the 1950s.

Mystery at the Manor – Jemima and her father Rodney, the chimney sweep, solve the mystery of stollen jewells at the manor.

Other books by someone named Jewell:

Jewells seem to dominate as authors non-fiction

• Jewell’s Crescent City (1893) by Edwina Jewell tells the commercial, social, political and general history of New Orleans, reprinted in 2011 by Applewood Books
• Women in Medieval England (1996) by Helen Jewell – the opening lines of the review tell it all.
• Lisa Jewell has written a number of novels: After the Party, The Making of Us