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Winifred Peck

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Born: December 31 1881

Died: 1919 11 19621962

Lady Winifred Peck , 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 career which saw twenty-five books over a period of forty years, including House-Bound which was reprinted in 2007 by Persephone Books. She also wrote two books about her own childhood, A Little Learning and Home for the Holidays .