Background
She was the daughter of Edmund Cartwright, the inventor of the power loom. She was born at her father"s rectory at Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire.
She was the daughter of Edmund Cartwright, the inventor of the power loom. She was born at her father"s rectory at Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire.
During her girlhood, Mrs Penrose had frequently stayed with close relatives and guardians, the Misses Cartwright, at Mirfield Hall, Markham, a village in Nottinghamshire, and from this place she took the nom de plume of "Mrs Markham", under which she gained celebrity as a writer of history and other books for the young. Mrs Markham had three sons and died at Lincoln on 24 January 1837 and was buried in Lincoln Minster. There is a stained glass window to her memory in East Markham Church.