Agnes E. Jacomb, pseud: Agnes Elizabeth Jacomb-Hood (1866–1949) was an English novelist, born in London. She began her literary career by winning the 250-guinea prize in the Melrose First Novel Competition with The Faith of His Fathers: A Story of Some Idealists (1909). The novel was a commercial as well as a literary success.James Milne, "Best Novel Competition Won by a Woman With Her First Book: Some Inferences Drawn", The New York Times, April 9, 1910. Her other novels include Johnny Lewison (1909), The Lonely Road (1911), Esther (1912) and The Fruits of the Morrow (1914).Janet Grimes, Diva Daims, Doris Robinson, Novels in English by Women, 1891–1920: A Preliminary Checklist, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1981,
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