Henry Edwin Fenn

[6] Fenn spent his career reporting on divorce and probate cases in the London courts, including 30 years with The Daily Telegraph,[7] which culminated in the publication of Thirty-five years in the divorce court in 1910.

It combined pen-portraits of leading lawyers at the divorce bar with anecdotes and stories of cases heard and Fenn's observations on human nature, private investigators, and the role of the press in judiciously editing the facts of the more salacious cases in their reporting.

The Yorkshire Post noted that 35 years in the courts had made Fenn cynical and led him to the conclusion that money was a greater motivating factor in cases than sentiment.

[9] The Daily News (London) felt that Fenn had sacrificed accuracy for readability and that many of his anecdotes were hardly new.

[8] Fenn died at his home at Carlton Road, Tufnell Park, London, on 3 November 1913.