Ethel Charlotte Coghill Penrose (1857 – 1 June 1938) was an Irish children's writer.[1]
Ethel Charlotte Coghill Penrose | |
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![]() Illustration taken from page 52 of 'Clear as the Noon Day' | |
Born | 1857 Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 1 June 1938 |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Irish |
Genre | Children's |
Life and career
editBorn Ethel Charlotte Coghill in Dublin in 1857 to Irish photographer[2][3] Sir John Joscelyn Coghill, 4th Baronet,[4] and his wife the Hon. Katherine Frances, daughter of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket of Castletownshend, County Cork. She had two sisters and four brothers.[5][6] She married a land agent, James Penrose on 30 December 1880 in Skibbereen.[7] They moved to Lismore, County Waterford to live for several years. Together they had at least four children.[8][9] She died on 1 June 1938.[6]
Penrose began writing children's books and had several published. Clear as the noon day was illustrated by her cousin, Edith Somerville.[10]
Bibliography
edit- The Fairy Cobbler's Gold (London, Nelson & Sons, 1890 and 1902)
- Darby and Joan: being the adventures of two children (London, Blackie & Son, 1894)
- Clear as the noon day (London, Jarrold & Sons, 1893)
References
edit- ^ Keith O'Sullivan; Pádraic Whyte (19 May 2017). Children's Literature Collections: Approaches to Research. Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 256–. ISBN 978-1-137-59757-1.
- ^ Roger Taylor; Larry John Schaaf (2007). Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 300–. ISBN 978-1-58839-225-1.
- ^ "Coghill Photographs". Getty.
- ^ John Debrett (1840). The baronetage of England. revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen. pp. 123–.
- ^ Joseph Foster (1881). The baronetage and knightage. Nichols and Sons. pp. 131–.
- ^ a b "Coghill". The Peerage.
- ^ "Marriage record" (PDF).
- ^ Kirwan (1995). "The Waterford Archeological & Historical society Journal" (PDF).
- ^ "Census 1901".
- ^ Clear as the noon day.
Further reading
editIllustrations from Clear as the noon day Archived 25 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine