Jacob

NAOMI JACOB (1884 - 1964)

Naomi Jacob, born in Ripon, left her teaching job in Middlesbrough when the educational authorities objected to her wearing trousers. She went on to be a successful actress and a prolific novelist, her greatest success probably being Four Generations (1934). Only one of her seventy-five novels - The Beloved Physician (1930) - is set in Middlesbrough. The background is the smallpox epidemic of 1898, while the foreground is much occupied with the love-life of the doctor-heroine. She also wrote books of advice, women's magazine serials and a biography of Marie Lloyd (1936). In 1930 she moved to Italy and wrote a book on that country in 1952. She always wore men's clothes as 'more practical and more economical'.

Myers Literary Guide:	The North-East
NAOMI JACOB (1884 - 1964) Naomi Jacob, born in Ripon, left her teaching job in Middlesbrough when the educational authorities objected to her wearing trousers. She went on to be a successful actress and a prolific novelist, her greatest success probably being Four Generations (1934). Only one of her seventy-five novels - The Beloved Physician (1930) - is set in Middlesbrough. The background is the smallpox epidemic of 1898, while the foreground is much occupied with the love-life of the doctor-heroine. She also wrote books of advice, women's magazine serials and a biography of Marie Lloyd (1936). In 1930 she moved to Italy and wrote a book on that country in 1952. She always wore men's clothes as 'more practical and more economical'.
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