About Ethel Penrose
Lived 1857 – 1938 (aged 80–81). Ethel Penrose was a writer.
Ethel Charlotte Coghill Penrose (1857 – 1 June 1938) was an Irish children's writer.
Life and career Born Ethel Charlotte Coghill in Dublin in 1857 to Irish photographer Sir John Joscelyn Coghill, 4th Baronet, and his wife the Hon. Katherine Frances, daughter of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket of Castletownshend, County Cork. She had two sisters and four brothers. She married a land agent, James Penrose on 30 December 1880 in Skibbereen. They moved to Lismore, County Waterford to live for several years. Together they had at least four children. She died on 1 June 1938.
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Who was Ethel Penrose?
children's writer from Ireland
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Ethel Penrose was born in 1857 in Dublin.
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Ethel Penrose died on 1 June 1938.
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Ethel Penrose was a writer.
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