Ierne L. Plunket
English historian and children's author (1885 – 1970)
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Ierne Arthur Lifford Plunket FRHistS (1885–1970) was a British author of medieval history and children's books.
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Biography
Ierne was born in Cookham on 9 May 1885, the ninth child of Arthur Cecil Crampton Plunket, a younger son of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket, and his wife Louisa Hewitt.[1] Educated at Queen Anne's School and Oxford High School,[2][3] she studied with the Society of Oxford Home Students, and received her MA when Oxford began admitting women to degrees in 1920.[4]
In 1917, she served at Scottish Women's Hospitals in Russia. She served with the Women's Royal Naval Service in 1918 in recruiting.[3][5]
From 1915, she began writing books of medieval history, with the aim to "make Mediaeval Europe live",[6] and with a particular focus on Spain.
After the war, she worked as a history lecturer at University College, Southampton, and then began writing adventure and school stories for children.[2]
She died at Royal Tunbridge Wells on 11 April 1970.[2][7]
