Elizabeth Jenkins (1905)    

Margaret Elizabeth Heald Jenkins was born October 31, 1905 in England.
She attended Newman College, Cambridge, from 1924 to 1927, where she studied history and literature.
From 1929 to 1939, Jenkins taught English at King Alfred School. During World War II, she served as a British civil servant.
Jenkins is best known for her two biographical works on Queen Elizabeth I of England (Elizabeth the Great, 1958) and her biography of the writer Jane Austen.