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- During her girlhood Mrs Penrose had frequently stayed with relatives at Markham, a village in Nottinghamshire, and from this place she took the nom de plume of "Mrs Markham," under which she gained celebrity as a writer of history and other books for the young.
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Elizabeth Penrose (3 August 1780 – 24 January 1837), known by her pseudonym Mrs Markham, was an English writer.
Sep 11, 2017 · Her name was Beryl Markham and, as a bush pilot from Kenya, she was well outside her equatorial comfort zone. Born Beryl Clutterbuck on October 26, 1902, in the English village of Ashwell, she had moved with her family to colonial British East Africa (Kenya from 1920) at the age of 4.
During her girlhood, Mrs Penrose had frequently stayed with close relatives and guardians, the Misses Cartwright, at Mirfield Hall, Markham, a village in Nottinghamshire. [2] She met her husband in the village, and used its name as the nom de plume of "Mrs Markham", under which she gained celebrity as a writer of history and other books for the ...
In 1823 Mrs. Penrose began to publish her series of school histories. She wrote under the pseudonym of ‘Mrs. Markham,’ taking that name from the village where her aunts resided, and where much of her early life was spent.
'Mrs. Markham' was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Penrose (1780-1837). Her History of England, and of France, became the most popular school histories of the mid-nineteenth century. Their distinguishing feature were the 'Conversations' between 'Mrs.M.' and her fictional pupils, which featured after each chapter.
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MRS MARKHAM, the pseudonym of Elizabeth Penrose (1780-1837), English writer, daughter of Edmund Cartwright the inventor of the power-loom. She was born at her father's rectory at Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire, on the 3rd of August 1780.
Nov 27, 2009 · Amelia Earhart, who had become the first woman to conquer the Atlantic solo, flying from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1932, professed herself ’delighted beyond words that Mrs Markham should have succeeded in her exploit’.
