Elizabeth Penrose in East Markham, Nottinghamshire

East Markham parish church, Nottinghamshire.

One of the south aisle windows, this one dedicated to the author Elizabeth Penrose.

'This window was rebuilt

Ao. Dni. 1885

To the Honour of GOD

and in memory of Eliza Daughter

of Edmund Cartwright. D.D.'

'For many of her earlier years

resident in this Parish,

and afterwards wife

of the Reverend

John Penrose M.A.'

'She was authoress

of Mrs Markham’s History

of England etc

and was buried in

Lincoln Minster in 1837'

Elizabeth Penrose (1780–1837), née Cartwright, wrote under the pseudonym Mrs Markham, after the village where she spent her youth. Her History of England was published in 1865. Among other books, she also wrote A History of Germany from its Invasion by Marius to the year 1850 (1853), and more than one edition of A History of France.