About Marion Adams-Acton
Marion Jean Catherine Adams-Acton (21 June 1846 – 11 October 1928) was a Scottish novelist who wrote under the pseudonym "Jeanie Hering". == Early life and education == She was born Marion Jean Catherine Hamilton at Brodick on the Isle of Arran on 21 June 1846, the illegitimate daughter of William, 11th Duke of Hamilton and a local island beauty, Elizabeth Hamilton. The Duke owned Brodick Castle, where one of his regular summer visitors was a popular landscape painter George Hering, the son of one of London's most successful bookbinders, Charles Hering Sr. George and his wife Caroline had lost their only child at the age of six, and the Duke suggested that they adopt Marion. Her mother was reluctant but was persuaded that her daughter would get a much better start to life with this wealthy, well-connected couple. Marion's adoptive parents took her to London when she was about four year old, although they would return every summer to Ormidale, their house on Arran. In London she was known as Jeanie Hering, the name she later used to publish her books. After receiving a good schooling to the age of sixteen she spent two years at a finishing school in Westphalia in Germany. After returning to London, the family were travelling to Arran by train it crashed, killing hundreds; they were among the fortunate survivors. == Married life == The Herings' house in St John's Wood was in the midst of a thriving artistic community and it was no surprise that on 10 August 1875 Jeanie married an artist, John Adams-Acton, one of England's top sculptors.
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