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Winifred Peck


Born
January 01, 1882

Died
November 20, 1962


Lady Winifred Peck (née Knox), born 1882, was a member of a remarkable family. Her father was Edmund Arbuthnott Knox, the fourth Bishop of Manchester, and her siblings were E. V. Knox, editor of Punch magazine, Ronald Knox, theologian and writer, Dilly Knox, cryptographer, Wilfred Lawrence Knox, clergyman, and Ethel Knox. Peck’s niece was the Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald who wrote a biography of her father, E. V. Knox, and her uncles, entitled The Knox Brothers.

She read Modern History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Her first book was a biography of Louis IX in 1909.

In 1911 she married James Peck, a British civil servant, who was awarded a knighthood in 1938. They had three children.

In 1919 she began her novel-writing care ...more

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House-Bound
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Arrest the Bishop?
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Bewildering Cares
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The Warrielaw Jewel
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A Little Learning: or, a Vi...
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1952 — 2 editions
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Home for the Holidays
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Tranquillity
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Facing South
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The King of Melido
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A Garden Enclosed
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“Arthur came in looking so exhausted that I went to the book-shelf and took out Mr. Mulliner Speaks. I propped this against the water-jug for him, and Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell, which I have read thirty times already and will probably read thirty more, against the loaf for myself. There is nothing so good for worried people as to read at their meals, and funny books if possible; for laughter grows so rusty in war time.”
― Winifred Peck, Bewildering Cares: A Week in the Life of a Clergyman's Wife
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“But what, after all, thought Dick despairingly, does one man know of the twisted convolutions of another’s mind?”
― Winifred Peck, Arrest the Bishop?
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“Over Dick swept that wave of depression no honest Christian can occasionally combat. “One could see Christ if it weren’t for the Church and the clergy!”
― Winifred Peck, Arrest the Bishop?
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