Gratiana Chanter
Gratiana Chanter Knocker (1857 – 1934) was a British novelist and illustrator. Gratiana Chanter was born in 1857 in Ilfracombe, Devon, the daughter of novelist Charlotte Chanter and vicar John Mill Chanter. She came from a family of novelists; her mother's brothers were the novelists Charles Kingsley and Henry Kingsley.
Gratiana Chanter
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- Gratiana Chanter was born on 1 January 1857.
- Died
- Gratiana Chanter died on 1 January 1934.
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- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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- novelist · illustrator
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Gratiana Chanter Knocker (1857 – 1934) was a British novelist and illustrator. Gratiana Chanter was born in 1857 in Ilfracombe, Devon, the daughter of novelist Charlotte Chanter and vicar John Mill Chanter. She came from a family of novelists; her mother's brothers were the novelists Charles Kingsley and Henry Kingsley.
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She published Wanderings in North Devon (1887), a collection of her father's writings. Her novel The Witch of Withyford (1896) was a story of about witches, murder, and child kidnapping. She also published a collection of short stories, The Rainbow Garden (1901). All of these books were accompanied by her own illustrations.
She married Edward Longworth Knocker, who was 15 years younger than her, in 1896. They settled in Italy.
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1857
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1934
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• Wanderings in North Devon: Being records and reminiscences in the life of John Mill Chanter. Ilfracombe: Twiss and Son, 1887. • The Witch of Withyford: A Story of Exmoor. 1 vol. London: J. M. Dent, 1896. • The Rainbow Garden and Other Stories. 1 vol. London: R. B. Johnson, 1901. • "Trebetherick": a story of North Cornwall as written by one David Roounsevall of the parish of St. Enodoc in that country. Naples: F. Giannini & figli, 1913.
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- 1.Daims, Diva. Toward a feminist tradition : an annotated bibliography of novels in English by women, 1891-1920. New York : Garland Pub. Co. 1982. 978-0-8240-9523-9.
- 2.Charlotte Chanter Orlando. orlando.cambridge.org.
- 3.Lamplugh, Lois. A history of Ilfracombe. Chichester, Sussex : Phillimore. 1984. 978-0-85033-525-5.
- 4.Author: Gratiana Chanter. www.victorianresearch.org.
- 5.Chanter, Gratiana. "Trebetherick"; a story of North Cornwall as written by one David Roounsevall of the parish of St. Enodoc in that country. F. Giannini & figli. 1913.
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