Winifred Frances Peck was an author of literary fiction and biographies.
Background
She 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, Ronald Knox, theologian and writer, Dilly Knox, cryptographer, Wilfred Lawrence Knox, clergyman, and Ethel Knox.
Career
Peck was one of the first 40 pupils to attend Wycombe Abbey School, and she went on to read Modern History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Peck’s first book was a biography of Louis IX in 1909. Ten years after this, she began her novel-writing career which saw twenty-five books over a period of forty years, including House-bound (1942) which was reprinted in 2007 by Persephone.
Also included among her work are two books on the subject of her own childhood, A Little Learning (1952) and Home for the Holidays (1955).
They had two sons.