Lanoe Falconer

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Lanoe Falconer


Born
in Inveraray, The United Kingdom
January 29, 1848

Died
June 16, 1908


Mary Elizabeth Hawker was born on 29 January 1848 at Inveraray, Aberdeenshire. She was the oldest daughter of Major Peter William Lanoe Hawker (1812–1857), of the 74th Highlanders, of Longparish House near Whitchurch, Hampshire, and Elizabeth Eraser. Her grandfather was Lieutenant-colonel Peter Hawker, author of Instructions to Young Sportsmen published in 1841.

Hawker's education was informal and primarily self-educating, as she read many books. Her father died in 1857, and after her mother's second marriage in the fall of 1862 to Herbert Fennell, the family lived in France and Germany. Hawker learned how to speak French and German. She was also a pianist.

Hawker early began to write, and a few stories and essays appeared in magazines and ne
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“The world is quite as beautiful as the poets say, but life is very different. There is nothing poetic or romantic about that; and as to falling in love like the girls always do in plays and stories, it is impossible. The real men are all so common-place-looking.”
Lanoe Falconer, The Hôtel d'Angleterre, and Other Stories

“We never, I suppose, appreciate heaven till we have at least looked into hell.”
Lanoe Falconer, Mademoiselle Ixe