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See also:MARKHAM, MRS , the See also:pseudonym of See also:Elizabeth Penrose (1780-1837), See also:English writer, daughter of See also:Edmund See also:Cartwright the inventor of the See also:power-See also:loom. She was See also:born at her See also:father's rectory at Goadby Marwood, See also:Leicestershire, on the 3rd of See also:August 1780. In 1804 she married the Rev. See also:John Penrose, a See also:country clergyman in See also:Lincolnshire and a voluminous theological writer. During her girlhood Mrs Penrose had frequently stayed with relatives at Markham, a, See also:village in See also:Nottinghamshire, and from this See also:place she took the nom de plume of " Mrs Markham," under which she gained celebrity as a writer of See also:history and other books for the See also:young. The best known of her books was A History of See also:England from the First Invasion by the See also:Romans to the End of the Reign of See also:George III. (1823), which went through numerous See also:editions. In 1828 she published a History of See also:France. Both these See also:works enjoyed a wide popularity in See also:America as well as in England. The distinctive characteristic of " Mrs Markham's " histories was the elimination of all the " horrors " of history, and of the complications of See also:modern party politics, as being unsuitable for the youthful mind; and the addition to each See also:chapter of " Conversations " between a fictitious See also:group consisting of teacher and pupils bearing upon the subject See also:matter. Her less well-known works were Amusements of Westernheath, or Moral Stories for See also:Children (2 vols., 1824); A Visit to the Zoological Gardens (1829); two volumes of stories entitled The New Children's Friend (1832); See also:Historical Conversations for Young See also:People (1836); Sermons for Children (1837). Mrs Markham died at See also:Lincoln on the 24th of See also:January 1837.
See See also:Samuel See also:Smiles, A Publisher and his See also:Friends (2 vols., See also:London, 1891) ; G. C. See also:Boase and W. P. See also:Courtney, Bibliotheca Cornubiensis (3 vols., London, 1874-1882).
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