author
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
1860–1929
A bestselling English novelist of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, she wrote popular romances shaped by sharp wit, moral conviction, and a strong Methodist faith. Her work also ranged into poetry and children's books, giving her a broad place in turn-of-the-century literary life.
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Ten Degrees Backward
by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
The Farringdons
by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
Concerning Isabel Carnaby
by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
About the author
Born in Wolverhampton on April 9, 1860, Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler was the daughter of Henry Hartley Fowler, later 1st Viscount Wolverhampton. She was educated mainly at home, and writing ran in the family: her younger sister Edith Henrietta Fowler also became a novelist.
Fowler built a large readership with fiction that mixed romance, social observation, and religious feeling. She is especially associated with popular novels of the 1890s and early 1900s, and she also published poetry and books for children. Contemporary and later reference sources consistently note the importance of her Methodist beliefs, which shaped both her outlook and much of her writing.
In 1903 she married Alfred Laurence Felkin, and some references list her as Mrs. A. L. Felkin. She died on June 22, 1929. Today she is remembered as a successful and distinctive voice in popular English fiction, with a body of work that still interests readers of Victorian and Edwardian literature.