Ellenor Fenn

Pamela Price (Cardiff University)

Ed. by Dimitra Fimi, University of Glasgow
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789.
Vol. editors: Paul Baines (University of Liverpool), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Pat Rogers (University of South Florida), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

Dates

Born 1743
Died 1813

Places

Active in United Kingdom

Activities

Primary

Children's/Young Adult writer

Resources

Fenn's Works

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Lady Ellenor Fenn (1743-1813) is renowned for her contribution to the development of children’s education and literature in the eighteenth century. Her prominent contributions in this discipline include: readers for different ages (

Cobwebs to Catch Flies

), child centred teaching schemes (

The Set of Toys

) and instructional material for parents (

Mrs Lovechild’s Series of Grammatical Knowledge

Ellenor (née Frere) Fenn (1743-1813), whose parentage was of landed gentry, was the third child of Sheppard Frere, esq. of Roydon, Suffolk and Susanna (née Hatley of London) Frere Westhorpe, Suffolk. Ellenor is the sister of John Frere (1740-1807) (Stoker, 2007, p. 818). In 1766 Ellenor married antiquarian John Fenn (1793-1794), who was a contemporary of her brother at Cambridge, and they lived

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Citation: Price, Pamela. "Ellenor Fenn". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 September 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14717, accessed 23 November 2024.]