Lady Amabel Kerr

Lady Amabel Kerr
BornLady Amabel Frederica Henrietta Cowper
24 March 1846[1]
St George Hanover Square, London, England
Died15 October 1906 (aged 60)
Melbourne, Derbyshire, England
Resting placeSt. David's Churchyard, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland
Occupation
  • writer
  • editor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Genre
  • biographies
  • devotional literature
  • children's literature
  • novels
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(m. 1873)​
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Lady Amabel Frederica Henrietta Kerr (née Cowper; 24 March 1846 – 15 October 1906) was a British aristocrat and writer of religious literature, biographies, children's literature, and novels. She was also a translator from German to English, and a magazine editor. She was described in the University of Ottawa Review as "a rare example of strenuous devotion to the service of God and His Church, rendered all the more forcible by reason of the obscurity in which she endeavored to shroud her work".[2] Kerr was the author of a number of books, among them: Unravelled Convictions, being the reasons for her conversion; Before Our Lord Came, an Old Testament history for little children; A Mixed Marriage, a novel; Life of Joan of Arc, and Life of Blessed Sebastian Valfre.[3] She died in October 1906.[4][a]

  1. ^ Westminster, London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1919
  2. ^ "LADY AMABEL KERR". University of Ottawa Review. 9–10. Students of the University of Ottawa.: 137–39 1906. Retrieved 9 February 2022 – via The Tablet.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference roundtableIrishEnglish-1897 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Pastor, Ludwig Freiherr von (1908). The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the Secret Archives of the Vatican and Other Original Sources. K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited. Retrieved 9 February 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ Burnand, Francis Cowley (1908). The Catholic who's who. London : Burns & Oates. p. 226. Retrieved 9 February 2022. Burnand-1908


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