Draft:Fanny Emily Penny

Fanny Emily Farr Penny (1847 – December 22, 1939) was a British novelist. She lived for twenty-four years in India and most of her forty-four novels are set there.

Fanny Emily Farr was born in 1847 in Covehithe, Suffolk, England, the daughter of the Rev. John Farr, rector in Gillingham, Norfolk, and Emily Caroline Cobbold Farr, daughter of brewer John Cobbold and poet Elizabeth Cobbold. She was educated at Queen's College and Bedford College in London. In 1877, she married the Rev. Frank Penny. The Rev. Penny was a chaplain for the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment and she accompanied him to India, where they lived until his retirement in 1901. They retired to Ealing.

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Fanny Emily Penny died on 22 December 1939 in Ealing.