The Cat House selected poems by Gillian Bence-Jones. GILLIAN BENCE-JONES is a landowner, poet and writer living and farming in East Anglia. She is a great, great, great, great niece of Jane Austin. Her knowledge of history and love of nature is reflected in her work. She is the author of a series of historical novels, the first of which THE BISHOP, S WIFE is to be published in the spring of 2015.