E. E. Cowper: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox person

| name = E. E. Cowper

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| death_place = [[Milford on Sea]], [[Hampshire]], England

| nationality = English

| occupation = Author

| children = [[Frank Cadogan Cowper]]

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==Early life==

 

Cowper married [[Frank Cowper|Frank Cooper]] (14 January 1849{{snd}}28 May 1930){{r|Baptism-FCowper}}{{r|FCowper-Obit}} at her father's church in [[Wicken, Northamptonshire]], England on 28 December 1877. She was seventeen at the time, and her husband was ten years older.{{r|Mge-Cooper-Cadogan}} He was a yachtsman, famous for single-handed cruising, and author, both of novels and of books on sailing. The couple had eight children, four boys and four girls: [[Frank Cadogan Cowper]], Edith Alice Magdalen Cowper, Earnest Lionel Cadogen Cowper, Gerald Audrey Cadogan Cooper, Gladys Blanche Katherine Cowper, Gwenllyan Sybilla Mary Cowper, Henry Evelyn Cadogan Cowper, and Nesta Evelyn Dorothea Cowper. The first five children were registered as Cooper and had their names changed to Cowper when their father changed his name. The youngest three, being born after the name change in 1885, were registered with the surname Cowper.{{r|FCCowper-Index-Birth}}{{r|EAMCowper-Index-Birth}}{{r|ELCCowper-Index-Birth}}{{r|GACCowper-Index-Birth}}{{r|GBKCowper-Index-Birth}}{{r|SGMCowper-Index-Birth}}{{r|HECCowper-Index-Birth}}{{r|NEDCowper-Index-Birth}}

The couple lived first in [[Hordle]], Hampshire, where they ran a small preparatory school. Later, they built Lisle Court at Wootton in the [[Isle of Wight]], which also served as a school.{{r|Sims-Clare-2020|p=155}} The 1891 census shows Cowper living at Lisle Court with six of her children, Gerald, age 9 at the time is absent for some reason. The census shows that the house was no longer working as a school.

 

 

By 1901, Cowper was living in Acton in London with her four daughters, aged 12 to 21 and with her profession listed as authoress. The 1911 census found Cowper living with her daughter Nesta at Flat 7, Fairlawn Court, Acton Lane, [[Chiswick]], London. Her other three daughters had already married, and Nesta would do so in 1914.

 

==Works==

 

{| class="wikitable sortable"

| 8 || 1903 || Calder Creek, a story of smuggling on the South Coast || Walter Sidney Stacey{{refn|group=note|name=W-S-Stacey|}} || London || [[SPCK]] || 246 p., ill., 8º ||

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| 10 || 1904 || The Witches of Westover Combe, a story of the South Coast, etc. || [[Harold Piffard]] || London || [[SPCK]] || 221 p., 8º ||

| 29 || 1916 || Three Sailor Girls || [[N. Tenison]] || London || [[Henry Frowde]] || 288 p., 4pl., 8º ||

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| 31 || 1917 || Hill of Broom. A Guernsey mystery || Elizabeth Earnshaw || London || [[Cassell (publisher)|Cassell]] || 312 p., 4 ill., 8º ||

| 33 || 1919 || The black dog's rider || John W. Campbell{{refn|group=note|name=J-W-Campbell|John William Campbell (1886{{snd}}4 May 1935) was a magazine and book illustrator who illustrated some 25 children's books, mostly girls' school stories.{{r|Kirkpatrick-2019|p=111-112}}}} || London || [[SPCK]] || v, 322 p., 8º ||

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| 35 || 1920 || Corporal Ida's floating camp || [[C. E. Brock]] || London || [[SPCK]] || 123 p., 8º ||

|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951

|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=ann_1288733819

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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606122812/https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=ann_1288733819

|location=London

|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofbrit00pepp

|isbn=0-7195-3985-4

|via=The [[Internet Archive]] }}</ref>

<ref name=Look-Learn-Tennant>{{cite web

|title=C. Dudley Tennant: Artist

|url=https://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/10029/c-dudley-tennant-artist/

}}</ref>

<ref name=Kirkpatrick-2019>{{cite book

|via=The [[British Newspaper Archive]]

|url-access=limited

}}</ref>

<ref name=FCowper-Obit>{{cite journal

|via=The [[British Newspaper Archive]]

|url-access=limited

}}</ref>

<ref name=Alum-Ox-V1-208>{{alox2|title=Cadogan, Rev. Edward}}</ref>

|location=London

|url=http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?sort_by=ARCHHEIR%3Dy&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&_IXACTION_=query&_IXSPFX_=templates%2Fsummary%2F&archive_title_hcode=2.01.J5&%2Asform=%2Fsearch_form%2Farchivesform&_IXSESSION_=

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<ref name=Fam-Hist-Cadogan-Cowper>{{cite web

|title=Family of Francis Cowper and Edith Eliza Cadogan

<ref name=Oxfam-Hasselaers>{{cite web

|title=The Hasselaers a Tale of Courage and Endurance by E.E. Cooper publ c1880 illustrated, attractive binding, scarce edition

|via=The [[British Newspaper Archive]]

|url-access=limited

}}</ref>

<ref name=Annual-1931>{{cite journal

|via=The [[British Newspaper Archive]]

|url-access=limited

}}</ref>

<ref name=Trap-Line-Girls>{{cite journal

|title=Go-Ahead Girls

|issue=Wednesday 09 December 1931

|pages=6

|date=1931-12-09

|via=The [[British Newspaper Archive]]

|url-access=limited

}}</ref>

<ref name=Flint-290>{{cite book

|publisher=Ancestry.com

|location=Provo, Utah }}</ref>

 

==External links==

* {{Librivox author |id=17135}}

* [https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=E.E.+Cowper&search_type=books Books by E. E. Cowper] at Goodreads

 

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[[Category:1859 births]]

[[Category:20th-century English novelists]]

[[Category:20th-century English women writers]]

[[Category:People from Hampshire]]