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.

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

Family

The elder daughter of Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton, Ellen was born at Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton, on 9 April 1860. Her younger sister, Edith Henrietta Fowler (16 February 1865 – 18 November 1944), was also a writer.

On 16 April 1903, Ellen married Alfred Felkin, a senior teacher at the Royal Naval School at Mottingham near Eltham.[1] She died on 22 June 1929 in Westbourne, Dorset.[2]

Verse and romances

Fowler's earliest volumes were Verses Grave and Gay (1891) and Verses Wise and Otherwise (1895), which were followed by a volume of short stories.[2] Further poetry came in Love's Argument and Other Poems (1905). Of her romances, a present-day commentator has noted, "Fowler unusually combined Methodism with high society..., which proved popular despite leaving the critics cold."[3] Fame came first with Concerning Isabel Carnaby (1898), then A Double Thread (1899), The Farringdons (1900), Fuel of Fire (1902), Place and Power (1903), Kate of Kate Hall (1904), In Subjection (1906),[3] Miss Fallowfield's Fortune (1908), The Wisdom of Folly (1910), Her Ladyship's Conscience (1913),[4] Ten Degrees Backward (1915), Beauty and Bands (1920) The Lower Pool (1923) and Signs and Wonders (1926).[2][5]

Edith Henrietta Fowler

Fowler's sister, Edith Henrietta Fowler, wrote two successful novels for children: The Young Pretenders (1895) and The Professor's Children (1897), and also The Man with Transparent Legs – Twenty six ideal stories for girls (1899).

The first of these was republished in London by Persephone Books in 2007,[6][7] in view of its "sophistication, humour and ironies" of interest to both children and adults.[2][8]

References
  1. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler profile, WolverhamptonHistory.org.uk; accessed 5 April 2016.
  2. Literary Heritage West Midlands Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  3. Jarndyce Booksellers' catalogue Women Writers 1795–1927 Part I: A–F (London, Summer 2017).
  4. "What conscience will do". The Independent. 6 July 1914. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  5.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Reynolds, Francis J., ed. (1921). "Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft" . Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company.
  6. Edith Henrietta Fowler (1865-1944) profile Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine, shropshire-cc.gov.uk Retrieved 5 April 2016.]
  7. Edith Henrietta Fowler profile Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  8. "Aunt Eleanor put on a tea-gown, and threw herself down on the sofa. 'I feel so wretchedly ill!' she exclaimed petulantly. 'These hot days give me such a headache!' 'Do you fink you'll get better or die?' asked Babs with interest. 'She is the most unfeeling child I ever saw!' thought her aunt – but aloud she said snappishly: 'Of course I shall get better!' 'I'm so glad!'" The Young Pretenders Retrieved 8 October 2018.
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