Christina Anne Jessica Cavendish-Bentinck

Christina Anne Jessica Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady Sykes (4 ga Yuli, 1852 - 2 ga Yuni, 1912) marubuciya ce kuma marubuciya 'yar Birtaniya. An san ta da "Jessie", ta wallafa a ƙarƙashin sunayen Jessica Sykes da JAC Sykes . name=":1">

An haifi Christina Anne Jessica Cavendish-Bentinck a ranar 4 ga Yuli, 1852.  Ita 'yar siyasa ce George Cavendish-Bentick da Prudentia Penelope Leslie Cavendish-Bentick. 'Yan uwanta sun haɗa da Venetia James da William George Cavendish-Bentinck .  Mai hankali da ra'ayi, ta karanci zane-zane a Paris kuma ta bauta wa John Ruskin .  name=":1">

Godiya ga makircin mahaifiyarta mai ban tsoro, tana da shekaru 18 ta yi aure da Sir Tatton Sykes mai kuɗi mai shekaru 48, Baronet na 5. An yi aurensu a Westminster Abbey a shekara ta 1874. Za su haifi ɗa ɗaya, Kanar Mark Sykes . Auren ya kasance bala'i ga ɓangarorin biyu. Ba su da wani abu da suka haɗa su kuma Tatton Sykes yana cin zarafi da kuma ƙwadayi, don haka Jessie Sykes ta koma ga harkokin kasuwanci, shan giya, da caca. Ta tara basussuka masu yawa. Wani mai ba da bashi ya kai ƙara, wanda ya haifar da badakala a bainar jama'a lokacin da Tatton Sykes ya shaida cewa bai sanya hannu kan takardar alkawari ga wannan mai ba da bashi ba.

Christina Anne Jessica Cavendish-Bentinck ta mutu a ranar 2 ga Yuni, 1912 a gidanta da ke Landan . 

 Rubutu 
Bayan yunƙurinta na yin aiki a wani asibiti na Natal a lokacin Yaƙin Boer, a shekarar 1900, ta buga Side Lights on the War in South Africa. Ta zama mai bayar da gudummawa akai-akai ga mujallu kamar Review of the Week da The Candid Friend . Ta kuma kafa littafinta da ke ɗauke da tsegumi da siyasa, The Sunrise, wanda ba da daɗewa ba ya haɗu da farfaɗowar The Rambler . Ta buga wani aiki na almara, The New Reign of Terror in France (1903) da littattafai guda uku, Romans à clef wanda ya dogara ne akan rayuwar kanta da wasu. Sykes, Christopher Simon (2005). The big house : the story of a country house and its family. Internet Archive. London; New York : Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-00-710710-0. Daga cikin na farko, Algernon Casterton (1903), George Bernard Shaw ya rubuta wa James Huneker : "Kuna son ganin abin da Turanci ke tunani game da Amurkawa? Karanta "Algernon Casterton" na Lady Sykes, wani labari na Turanci na baya-bayan nan. A can za ku ga ra'ayin Ingilishi game da mace 'yar Amurka a matsayin karuwa mai jinin jiki, marar jima'i, wacce ke sayar da kanta ba tare da tsoro ba kuma ba tare da nuna ƙauna ga mutumin da zai iya ba ta lokaci mafi kyau a cikin al'ummar London ba, kuma wanda ke sa mijinta ya biya mata alfarma kamar dai baƙo ne."  MacDonnells (1905) ya dogara ne akan dangin mahaifiyarta kuma taken Mark Alston (1908) ya samo asali ne daga Ruskin. Jarumar ta ƙarshe, matashiya Portia Bulstrode, tana son ta auri Alston, amma mahaifiyarta tana son ta auri "ƙaramin abokin hamayya" Lord Beechfield, wanda ke da shekaru 48. 

Ta kuma rubuta wani wasan kwaikwayo wanda ta aika wa Herbert Beerbohm-Tree a shekarar 1904, amma ya yi tunanin cewa yana da haɗari sosai don a yi wasan kwaikwayo. Sykes, Christopher Simon (2005). The big house : the story of a country house and its family. Internet Archive. London; New York : Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-00-710710-0.

 Littattafan tarihi 

 Hasken Gefe akan Yaƙin Afirka ta Kudu, Zane-zane ne da aka gina bisa lura da kai a lokacin zaman 'yan makonni a Cape Colony da Natal. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. 
 Sabuwar Mulkin Ta'addanci a Faransa, Kasancewar Bayani Mara Son Kai Game da Halin da Harkokin Jama'a ke Ciki a Wannan Ƙasar. London: Bickers and Son, 1903. 
 Algernon Casterton: Wasu Kwarewa A Cikin Shekaru Ashirin da Biyar Na Farko Na Rayuwarsa. London: Bickers, 1903. 
 MacDonnells. London : Heinemann, 1905. 
 Mark Alston: Wani Ra'ayi . London: E. Nash, 1908. 

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