page_title: Kitty Lee Jenner
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Kitty Lee Jenner / Death
caption_attribution_description: Comemorative Plaque on the Jenners' home in Hayle.
context_page_description: Kitty Lee Jenner was an English artist and writer. She grew up in Cornwall and having studied art in London, she became a writer. She published six novels under the name Katharine Lee, as well as writing books on Christian symbolism. She was also known as Mrs Henry Jenner and Katharine Jenner following her marriage to Henry Jenner in 1877. To begin with, she was the more famous person in the relationship. The couple had one child together.
  As well as pursuing her writing career, Jenner worked together with her husband on themes such as sacred art and the Cornish language revival. After becoming a bard of Gorsedd Cymru in 1904, she took the name Morvoren and was later involved in setting up the Cornish Gorsedh. She died at home in 1936, at the age of 83.
context_section_description: Jenner died at home from myocarditis on 21 October 1936. She left around £23,000 in her will (equivalent to £1,600,000 in 2019). She is buried together with her husband at Lelant in west Cornwall.
caption: A commemorative plaque inscribed in Cornish and English to Kitty and Henry Jenner
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