Edith Henrietta Fowler

Edith Henrietta Fowler
A young white woman, standing, wearing a gown with a ruffled neckline and holding lilies
Born16 February 1865
Wolverhampton
DiedNovember 1944
Overstrand, Norfolk
OccupationWriter
ParentHenry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton
RelativesEllen Thorneycroft Fowler (sister); Henry Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (brother); George Benjamin Thorneycroft (grandfather)

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 and Ellen Thorneycroft. Her sister was Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, also a writer; her brother was Henry Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton. Her maternal grandfather was George Benjamin Thorneycroft, first Mayor of Wolverhampton.[1]

Career

Fiction by Fowler included The Young Pretenders (1895, illustrated by Philip Burne-Jones)[2] and The Professor’s Children (1897),[3] both novels for young readers,[4] A Corner of the West (1899),[5][6] The World and Winstow (1901),[7][8] For Richer, For Poorer (1905),[9] Patricia (1915),[10][11] and Christabel (1921).[12] She also wrote a biography of her father, published in 1912.[13]

The Young Pretenders, with its heroine Babs, was regarded in a review by the English novelist and editor James Payn in The Illustrated London News as "one of the best narratives of child-life I have read for years".[14]

The Young Pretenders, a quote published as part of an ILN review

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.[4] Her book 1895 The Young Pretenders was reissued in 2007 by Persephone Books.[2][15]

References

  1. ^ Perry, Anthony (1997). The Fowler legacy : the story of a forgotten family. Studley, Warwickshire: Brewin Books. ISBN 1-85858-094-3. OCLC 38249318.
  2. ^ a b Fowler, Edith Henrietta; Burne-Jones, Philip; Mitchell, Charlotte (2007). The young pretenders. ISBN 978-1-903155-63-9. OCLC 317816872.
  3. ^ Fowler, Edith Henrietta; Burgess, Ethel Kate (1897). The professor's children. OCLC 894097600.
  4. ^ a b "Edith Henrietta Fowler". Persephone Books. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  5. ^ Fowler, Edith Henrietta (1899). A corner of the West. The Library of Congress. New York, Appleton & co.
  6. ^ "Literary Clippings". The Tennessean. 19 November 1899. p. 20. Retrieved 4 April 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Fowler, Edith Henrietta (1901). The world and Winstow. The Library of Congress. New York, Dodd, Mead and company.
  8. ^ "Notes and News". The New York Times. 25 May 1901. p. 32. Retrieved 4 April 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Fowler, Edith Henrietta (1905). For richer, for poorer. London: Hurst and Blackett. OCLC 8943630.
  10. ^ Edith Henrietta Fowler (1915). Patricia. New York Public Library. Putnam.
  11. ^ "Literary Notes". The South Bend Tribune. 17 July 1915. p. 22. Retrieved 4 April 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Fowler, Edith Henrietta (1921). Christabel. London: Hutchinson. OCLC 11898909.
  13. ^ Fowler, Edith Henrietta (1912). The life of Henry Hartley Fowler, First Viscount Wolverhampton, G.C.S.I. University of California Libraries. London : Hutchinson & Co. – via Internet Archive.
  14. ^ Payn, James (29 June 1895). "Our Notebook". The Illustrated London News. 106 (2032): 794 – via Internet Archive.
  15. ^ Seshagiri, Urmila (2013). "Making It New: Persephone Books and the Modernist Project". Modern Fiction Studies. 59 (2): 241–287. ISSN 0026-7724. JSTOR 26287648.