Ethel Charlotte Coghill Penrose (1857 – 1 June 1938) was an Irish children's writer.
Life and career
Born Ethel Charlotte Coghill in Dublin in 1857 to Irish photographer
Sir John Joscelyn Coghill,
4th Baronet,
and his wife the Hon. Katherine Frances, daughter of
John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket
John Span Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket of Newtown, County Cork (10 July 1793 – 16 April 1871) was an Irish peer and Queen's Counsel. He was the second son of William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket, and Catherine MacAusland. He succeeded his brother Tho ...
of
Castletownshend
Castletownshend (, literally "town of the castle") is a village about south-east of Skibbereen, in County Cork, Ireland. The village developed around a small 17th-century castle built by Richard Townsend, whose descendants still reside there.
...
,
County Cork
County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are ...
. She had two sisters and four brothers.
She married a land agent, James Penrose on 30 December 1880 in Skibbereen. They moved to Lismore, County Waterford to live for several years. Together they had at least four children. She died on 1 June 1938.
Penrose began writing children's books and had several published. ''Clear as the noon day'' was illustrated by her cousin,
Edith Somerville
Edith Anna Œnone Somerville (2 May 1858 – 8 October 1949) was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. Œ. Somerville". She wrote in collaboration with her cousin "Martin Ross" ( Violet Martin) under the pseudonym " Somerville ...
.
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
Further readingIllustrations from ''Clear as the noon day''
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Irish women novelists
1857 births
1938 deaths
Writers from County Dublin
Irish children's writers
19th-century Irish novelists
19th-century Irish women writers