Edith Henrietta Fowler
British writer
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Edith Henrietta Fowler (16 February 1865 – 18 November 1944) was a British writer.
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| Born | 16 February 1865 Wolverhampton |
| Died | November 1944 (aged 79) 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]
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]
