ABSTRACT

Jenks was taking a path that was not unprecedented in his family: Edward Jenks’ ambition had taken him to Australia, Dorothy’s brother Reginald emigrated to the USA, and later Jenks’ sister Barbara would spend a few years in Canada. The Jenks were a family in tune with the new, more interconnected world that was emerging courtesy of the steamship, the telegraph and free trade. This was the system that made the fortune of the Forwood family and one that Edward Jenks believed in unreservedly. It seems likely that, at the outset, Jorian Jenks would have shared his father’s opinion, but step-by-step, through experience and reflection, he would develop an antithesis to the dominant wisdom of the age.