Inez Isabel Maud Peacocke (31 January 1881–12 October 1973) was a New Zealand teacher, novelist and broadcaster. She was born in Devonport,

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...

, New Zealand in 1881.

Ponsonby Peacocke Captain Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke (1813 – 29 May 1872) was a British officer of the Bombay Army and an artist notable for his 17 paintings of historic landscape views in the Nilgiri Hills in South India. Tinted lithographs were made of thes ...

was her grandfather. She wrote fifty novels, mostly for children, but also 16 light adult romances. Significant works include ''My Friend Phil'' (1915) and ''Cathleen with a 'C (1934).

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