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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Hiberno-English Шаблон:Infobox writer Ethel Charlotte Coghill Penrose (1857 – 1 June 1938) was an Irish children's writer.[1]

Life and career

Born 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

  • 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

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Further reading

Illustrations from Clear as the noon day

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