The Farringdons

By Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

Book Overview

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (9 April 1860 - 22 June 1929) was an English author. The elder daughter of Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton, she was a successful author, publishing several volumes of verse, a volume of short stories, and several novels. She first achieved fame by the publication of Concerning Isabel Carnaby (1898). This was followed by A Double Thread (1899), Fuel of Fire (1902), Place and Power (1903), Kate of Kate Hall (1904), Her ladyship's conscience (1914) and Ten Degrees Backward (1915). 2] On 16 April 1903, she married Alfred Felkin, a senior teacher at the Royal Naval School at Mottingham near Eltham. Her younger sister, Edith Henrietta Fowler (16 February 1865 - 18 November 1944), was also a writer. She wrote two very successful novels for children: The Young Pretenders (1895) and The Professor's Children (1897). The Young Pretenders was republished by Persephone Books in 2007

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1985253488
• ISBN13: 9781985253483
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 10.0"