Winifred Peck
Winifred Frances Peck (née Knox; 14 September 1882 – 20 November 1962), styled Lady Peck from 1938, was an English novelist and biographer.
Early life and education
[edit]Winifred was born in 1882 at 8 Merton Street, Oxford,[1] the youngest child of Rev. Edmund Arbuthnott Knox and Ellen Penelope French, daughter of the missionary Rev. Valpy French.[2] Her father was a fellow at Merton College, Oxford at the time of her birth and later was the fourth Bishop of Manchester (1903–1921).[3] Her father was of Ulster Scots descent.[4]
Knox was one of the first 40 pupils to attend Wycombe Abbey School, and she went on to read Modern History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.[5]
Career
[edit]Knox's first book, written in 1909, was a biography of Louis IX.[5]
Ten years after writing her first book, Winifred Peck began a novel-writing career which saw the publication of twenty-five books over a period of forty years, including House-bound (1942),[6] which was reprinted in 2007 by Persephone Books. She also wrote two books on the subject of her own childhood, A Little Learning (1952) and Home for the Holidays (1955).[7]
Peck was the sister of E. V. Knox, editor of Punch; Ronald Knox, theologian and writer;[5] Dilly Knox, cryptographer; Wilfred Lawrence Knox, clergyman; and Ethel Knox. Her niece was the Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald who wrote a biography of her father, E. V. Knox, and her uncles, entitled The Knox Brothers.
Personal life
[edit]In 1911, Knox married civil servant James Peck.[5] They had three sons (the second predeceased his parents).[8] When her husband was awarded a knighthood in 1938 she assumed the title of Lady Peck.[9]
Lady Peck died in 1962.[5]
Books
[edit]In her Who's Who entry, Peck listed the following books by her:[6]
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Notes and references
[edit]- Notes
- ^ Listed by mistake as The Patchwork Quilt
- References
- ^ "Births". Bicester Herald. Oxfordshire, England. 22 September 1882. p. 8. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
- ^ Burke, Bernard; Burke, Ashworth Peter (1910). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. Harrison & Sons. p. 1948. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
- ^ Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1915
- ^ Moulton, Mo (3 April 2014). Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England. Cambridge University Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-107-05268-0. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
- ^ a b c d e Obituary, The Times, 22 November 1962, p.18
- ^ a b "Peck, Winifred Frances, (Lady Peck)", Who Was Who, online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014, retrieved 9 May 2014 (subscription required)
- ^ Peck, Winifred 1882–1962 WorldCat, retrieved 9 May 2014
- ^ Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1963-4, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1965, p. 32
- ^ "Peck, Sir James Wallace", Who Was Who, online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014, retrieved 9 May 2014 (subscription required)
External links
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- Author Profile at Persephone Books
- House-Bound at Persephone Books
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