Fenny
$39.83
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2026
Summary
Fenny: A Yorkshire Governess in Wartime Florence
Celebrating 90 Years of Penguin Michael Joseph publishing with the Mermaid collection, this edition of Lettice Cooper’s Fenny features a foreword by Jennie Godfrey.
Yorkshire teacher Ellen Fenwick has never been abroad. But when her mother dies, this young woman finds herself taking a position as governess to an English girl in Florence in the summer of 1933. Little does Ellen realise how this girl, Juliet, and her fa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781405984157 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1405984155 |
| Author: | Lettice Cooper |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 27mm |
| Series: | The Mermaid Collection |
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A writer of quiet but strong, deep and varied gifts * Sunday Telepgraph *A storyteller of adventures of the heart – Jilly Cooper
About The Author
Lettice Cooper
Lettice Cooper was born in 1897 and grew up in Leeds, where her father ran an engineering firm. After reading classics at Oxford, she worked in the family business while writing her first book, The Lighted Room. After a short period at the feminist weekly Time and Tide, she worked at the Ministry of Food during the war. Over the course of her life, she wrote some twenty novels, many of which convey her deep socialist convictions and a loyalty to her Yorkshire roots. Lettice Cooper was devoted to Italy, especially Tuscany, and used it as the setting for several novels, including Fenny. She lived contentedly with her staunchly Tory sister in a London flat, was a great encourager of young writers, and helped to establish Public Lending Right.
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