Born: 5 October 1864, Australia
Died: 6 August 1920
Country most active: Australia
Also known as: Elizabeth Esther Helen Jennings
This biography is republished from The Dictionary of Australasian Biography: Comprising notices of eminent colonists from the inauguration of responsible government down to the present time. [1855-1892] by Phillip Mennell, F.R.G.S., published by Hutchinson & Co., 25 Paternoster Square and 1892. The text was reproduced via Project Gutenberg.
Jenyns, Essie, was born at Brisbane, Queensland. Her father was in the medical profession, but died when Miss Jenyns was but twelve years of age. Her mother married Mr. J. W. Holloway, the actor, and with Mr. Holloway’s company Miss Jenyns began her dramatic career about ten years ago. She played a small engagement with Mr. George Rignold, in Melbourne, about eight years ago. It was not till 1886 that Miss Jenyns drew to herself the distinct attention of the public. With Mr. Holloway’s company she played a Shakesperian season at the New Opera House in Sydney in the autumn of that year, and as Juliet and Rosalind won for herself a pronounced success. In 1889 she married Mr. John Woods, of Newcastle, N.S.W., and retired from the stage.
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