Edith Henrietta Fowler (16 February 1865 – 18 November 1944) was a British writer.

Early life

Edith Henrietta Fowler was born in 1865, the daughter of

Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton, (16 May 183025 February 1911) was a British solicitor and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1908 when he was raised to the peerage. A member of the Wesleyan Me ...

and Ellen Thorneycroft. Her sister was

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (9 April 1860 – 22 June 1929) was an English author of popular romances, and a poet and children's writer. She was a keen Methodist. Family and status The elder daughter of Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverham ...

, also a writer; her brother was

Henry Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton Henry Ernest Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (4 April 1870 – 9 March 1943) was a British peer and composer. Fowler was born at Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, into a Wesleyan Methodist family, the only son and heir of solicitor and polit ...

. Her maternal grandfather was George Benjamin Thorneycroft, first Mayor of

Wolverhampton Wolverhampton ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands of England. Located around 12 miles (20 km) north of Birmingham, it forms the northwestern part of the West Midlands conurbation, with the towns of ...

Career

Fiction by Fowler included ''The Young Pretenders'' (1895, illustrated by

Philip Burne-Jones Sir Philip William Burne-Jones, 2nd Baronet (1 October 1861 – 21 June 1926) was a Victorian Era British aristocrat, whose life and professional career as a painter spanned into the Edwardian. He was the first child of more famed British Pre ...

) and ''The Professor’s Children'' (1897), both novels for young readers, ''A Corner of the West'' (1899), ''The World and Winstow'' (1901), ''For Richer, For Poorer'' (1905), ''Patricia'' (1915), and ''Christabel'' (1921). She also wrote a biography of her father, published in 1912. ''The Young Pretenders'', with its heroine Babs, was regarded in a review by the English novelist and editor

James Payn James Payn (; 28 February 1830 – 25 March 1898) was an English novelist and editor. Among the periodicals he edited were ''Chambers's Journal'' in Edinburgh and the ''Cornhill Magazine'' in London. Family Payn's father, William Payn (1774/17 ...

The Illustrated London News ''The Illustrated London News'', founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine. The magazine was published weekly for most of its existence, switched to a less freq ...

as "one of the best narratives of child-life I have read for years". The-Young-Pretenders_quote1

Personal life

Fowler married the Reverend Robert Hamilton in 1903; they had two sons, the younger born when she was 43 years old. She died in 1944, aged 79 years, at Overstrand in Norfolk. Her book 1895 ''The Young Pretenders'' was reissued in 2007 by

Persephone Books ''Persephone Books'' is an independent publisher based in Bath, England. Founded in 1999 by Nicola Beauman, Persephone Books reprints works largely by women writers of the late 19th and 20th century, though a few books by men are included. Th ...

References

External links

* An audio edition of Fowler's ''The Young Pretenders'', read by Celine Major for

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