E. E. (Edith Elise) Cowper

Born Edith Elise Cadogan on 21 July 1859 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, she became a popular English author writing as E. E. Cowper. She is chiefly remembered for adventure fiction for girls, a field in which she was especially productive at a time when that kind of story was still relatively unusual.

She married the yachtsman and writer Frank Cowper, and the couple had eight children. Accounts of her life note that the marriage later broke down, but she continued to be known through the many books she published for younger readers.

Cowper died on 18 November 1933. Though she is less widely known today than some of her contemporaries, her work remains of interest for its energetic heroines and for the place it holds in the history of girls' adventure fiction.