Introduction

Biography

Ellen was the daugh­ter of Sir Hen­ry Hartley Fowl­er, grand­daugh­ter of Wes­ley­an min­is­ter Jo­seph Fow­ler, and grand­daugh­ter of George Thor­ney­croft, first may­or of Wol­ver­hamp­ton. Her fa­ther, a so­li­ci­tor, was a coun­cil­lor and may­or, be­came a Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment in 1880, and lat­er the first Lord Wol­ver­hamp­ton. Her sis­ter, Ed­ith Hen­ri­et­ta Fowl­er, was a no­vel­ist.

In 1903, Ell­en mar­ried A. L. Fel­kin, Sen­ior As­sist­ant to the Mas­ter of El­tham Col­lege, Lon­don. They moved to West­bourne, Bourne­mouth, in 1916.

Works

• Verses Grave and Gay (Lon­don: Cas­sell, 1891)
• Verses Wise and Oth­er­wise, 1895
• Cupid’s Gar­den, 1897
• Concerning Isa­bel Car­na­by, 1898
• A Dou­ble Thread, 1899
• The Man with Trans­par­ent Legs—Twen­ty Six Ideal Sto­ries for Girls, 1899
• The Far­ring­dons, 1900
• Love’s Ar­gu­ment and Oth­er Po­ems (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1900)
• The Is­abel Car­na­by Birth­day Book, 1900
• The An­gel and the De­mon & Oth­ers, 1901
• Sirius & Oth­er Sto­ries, 1901
• Fuel of Fire, 1902
• Place and Pow­er, 1903
• Kate of Kate Hall, with A. L. Fel­kin, 1904
• In Sub­ject­ion, 1906
• Miss Fal­low­field’s For­tune, 1908
• The Wis­dom of Fol­ly, 1910
• Her La­dy­ship’s Con­science, 1913
• Ten De­grees Back­ward, 1915
• Beauty and Bands, 1920
• The Low­er Pool, 1923
• Signs and Won­ders, 1926