“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

I made A TON of personal and professional mistakes throughout my early to mid-twenties. As a result, I won't be writing under my "Jess C Scott" pen name as it doesn't reflect who I am anymore (it's a pen name I used since I was 12 years old).

I have tried to make amends where possible and learn from my mistakes so that I make better choices in future.

This year, I started working on some horror short stories. I intend to publish them at some point in future under my real name.

I hope to see you at my new site if the genre is of interest to you :)

Thank you and take care! 👋✍️

-- Jess. (October 2020)

 “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”

 “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

Alfred Tennyson, invariably known as Alfred Lord Tennyson on all his books, was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of the twelve children of George Tennyson, clergyman, and his wife, Elizabeth. In 1816 Tennyson was sent to Louth Grammar School, which he disliked so intensely that from 1820 he was educated at home until at the age of 18 he joined his two brothers at Trinity College, Cambridge and with his brother Charles published his first book, Poems by Two Brothers the same year.

His second book, Poems Chiefly Lyrical was published in 1830. In 1833, Tennyson's best friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who was engaged to his sister, died, inspiring some of his best work including In Memoriam, Ulysses and the Passing of Arthur.

In 1850, following William Wordsworth, Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate and married his childhood friend, Emily Sellwood. They had two children, Hallam born in 1852 and Lionel, two years later. In 1884, as a great favourite of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he was raised to the peerage and was thereafter known as Baron Tennyson of Aldworth. He was the first Englishman to be granted such a high rank solely for literary distinction.

Tennyson continued to write poetry throughout his life and in the 1870s also wrote a number of plays. he died in 1892 at the age of 83 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.