Naomi Jacob

Naomi Jacob (1884-1964) was a British novelist, biographer, actress, suffragette, and broadcaster born in Ripon, Yorkshire, to a German-Jewish father and English mother, whose dual heritage influenced her writing on anti-Semitism and Yorkshire life. She achieved success with her debut novel Jacob Ussher (1926), the bestselling Gollantz Saga chronicling a Jewish family across generations, and works like Four Generations (1934), alongside autobiographies and a biography of Marie Lloyd. A prolific author of over 80 books, she lived in Italy due to tuberculosis, associated with literary figures like Radclyffe Hall, and remained active in Labour politics.