Ethel Penrose

Ethel Charlotte Coghill Penrose (1857 – 1 June 1938) was an Irish children's writer.[1]

Ethel Charlotte Coghill Penrose
Illustration taken from page 52 of 'Clear as the Noon Day'
Born	1857 Dublin, Ireland
Died	1 June 1938
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Irish
Genre	Children's

Life and career

Born Ethel Charlotte Coghill in Dublin in 1857 to Irish photographer[2][3] Sir John Joscelyn Coghill, 4th Baronet,[4] and his wife the Hon. Katherine Frances, daughter of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket of Castletownshend, County Cork. She had two sisters and four brothers.[5][6] She married a land agent, James Penrose on 30 December 1880 in Skibbereen.[7] They moved to Lismore, County Waterford to live for several years. Together they had at least four children.[8][9] She died on 1 June 1938.[6]

Penrose began writing children's books and had several published. Clear as the noon day was illustrated by her cousin, Edith Somerville.[10]

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

1. Keith O'Sullivan; Pádraic Whyte (19 May 2017). Children's Literature Collections: Approaches to Research. Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 256–. ISBN 978-1-137-59757-1.
2. Roger Taylor; Larry John Schaaf (2007). Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 300–. ISBN 978-1-58839-225-1.
3. "Coghill Photographs". Getty.
4. John Debrett (1840). The baronetage of England. revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen. pp. 123–.
5. Joseph Foster (1881). The baronetage and knightage. Nichols and Sons. pp. 131–.
6. "Coghill". The Peerage.
7. "Marriage record" (PDF).
8. Kirwan (1995). "The Waterford Archeological & Historical society Journal" (PDF).
9. "Census 1901".
10. Clear as the noon day.

Further reading

Illustrations from Clear as the noon day