author
Philip Inchfawn
1882–1965
Known as Philip Inchfawn, he wrote children’s stories with his wife, the popular English author Fay Inchfawn. Though the name is less famous today, it sits behind early 20th-century books full of domestic adventure and imaginative play.
1 Audiobook
The Golliwog News : a story of three children and a toy newspaper : with supplement
by Philip Inchfawn, Fay Inchfawn
About the author
Philip Inchfawn was the pen name of Atkinson Ward (1882–1965), an English writer best remembered for collaborating with his wife, Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, who wrote under the much better-known name Fay Inchfawn. Reference works and library sources identify Philip Inchfawn as Atkinson Ward’s pseudonym, while Project Gutenberg also lists him under that real name.
The Wards wrote children’s books together in the early 1900s, including The Golliwog News and other adventure stories published by S. W. Partridge. His surviving public profile is closely tied to these collaborations rather than to a large separate body of solo work, which gives his name a slightly hidden, behind-the-scenes place in literary history.
Because information about Atkinson Ward himself is limited, most biographical details now come through accounts of Fay Inchfawn’s life and work. Even so, Philip Inchfawn remains part of a lively literary partnership that helped create popular family reading in the years before and after the First World War.