Jennette Threlfall

THRELFALL, Jennette. b. Blackburn, Lancashire, 24 March 1821; d. London, 30 November 1880. She was brought up after the death of her parents in the house of an uncle and aunt. She later lived with their daughter and her husband at Dean’s Yard, Westminster, London. As the result of an accident she was lamed, and another accident left her severely disabled. She published a collection of 35 poems and hymns, Woodsorrel: Leaves from a Retired Home, ‘by J.T.’ (1856); and the better known Sunshine and Shadow (1873), containing 15 of the pieces from Woodsorrel with 55 new items. Sunshine and Shadow appeared with an introduction by Christopher Wordsworth*, Bishop of Lincoln, who had been Canon of...