Edith Henrietta Fowler

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

Edith Henrietta Fowler
Born	16 February 1865 Wolverhampton
Died	November 1944 Overstrand, Norfolk
Occupation	Writer
Parent	Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton
Relatives	Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (sister); Henry Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (brother); George Benjamin Thorneycroft (grandfather)

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. 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. "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.

External links

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