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'''Fanny Emily Farr Penny''' (29 December 1847 – 22 December 1939) was a British novelist. She lived for twenty-four years in India and most of her forty-four novels are set there.<ref name=":7">{{Cite book |last=Kemp |first=Sandra |title=Edwardian fiction: an Oxford companion |last2=Mitchell |first2=Charlotte |last3=Trotter |first3=David |date=1997 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-811760-5 |location=Oxford; New York}}</ref>

Fanny Emily Farr was born in 1847 in [[Covehithe]], [[Suffolk]], England, the daughter of the Rev. John Farr, [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] in [[Gillingham, Norfolk|Gillingham]], [[Norfolk]], and Emily Caroline Cobbold Farr, daughter of brewer [[John Cobbold (1746–1835)|John Cobbold]] and poet [[Elizabeth Cobbold]]. She was educated at [[Queen's College, London|Queen's College]] and [[Bedford College, London|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]].<ref name=":7"/><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Author: Fanny Emily Penny |url=https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=2342 |access-date=2024-06-28 |website=www.victorianresearch.org}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite journal |last=Bell |first=Srilekha |date=2001 |title=Mrs. Frank Penny's A Mixed Marriage: "A Tale Worth Reading" |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/article/366714 |journal=English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=28–45}}</ref>

A number of her novels feature the clash between western and Indian culture, and while Penny favors her Christian British culture her depiction of Indian culture is not unsympathetic.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7"/> ''The Outcaste'' (1912) features a Western-educated Christian Indian ostracized by Indian culture.<ref name=":7" /> ''A Mixed Marriage'' (1903) features an interracial marriage between an upper class white British woman, Lorina Carlyon, and a wealthy Indian Muslim aristocrat, Mir Yacoob.<ref name=":6" /> A number of her novels feature magical elements, such as divination and men changing into animals.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bleiler |first=Everett Franklin |url=http://archive.org/details/guidetosupernatu0000blei |title=The guide to supernatural fiction |date=1983 |publisher=Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press |others=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref name=":2" />

She also wrote several works of non-fiction, including ''Southern India'' (1914), featuring illustrations of a wide variety of Indian people by [[Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock|Lady Lawley]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Inman |first=Colin |url=http://archive.org/details/acblackcolourboo0000inma |title=The A & C Black colour books : a collector's guide and bibliography 1900-1930 |date=1990 |publisher=London : Werner Shaw |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-907961-05-5}}</ref>

Fanny Emily Penny died on 22 December 1939 in Ealing.<ref name=":1"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Various |url=http://archive.org/details/whowaswhovol31920003vari |title=Who Was Who Vol 3 1929-1940 |date=1848 |publisher=Adam & Charles Black |others=Internet Archive}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==

* ''Fickle Fortune in Ceylon.'' Madras: Addison & Co., 1887<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.27815 |title=Author catalogue of printed books in European languages |date=1954 |publisher=Government of India press, Calcutta}}</ref>
* ''Caste and Creed''. 2 vol. London: F. V. White, 1890.<ref name=":1"/><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Gupta |first=Brijen Kishore |url=http://archive.org/details/indiainenglishfi0000gupt |title=India in English fiction, 1800-1970; an annotated bibliography |date=1973 |publisher=Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-8108-0612-2}}</ref>
* ''The Romance of a Nautch Girl: A Novel''. 1 vol. London: [[Swan Sonnenschein]], 1898.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
* ''A Forest Officer: Being Episodes in the Life of Jim Burns''. 1 vol. London: [[Methuen Publishing|Methuen]], 1900.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
* ''[[Fort St. George, India|Fort St. George]], Madras: A Short History of Our First Possession in India''. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1900.<ref name=":3" />
* ''Dilys''. London: [[Chatto & Windus|Chatto and Windus]], 1903.<ref name=":2" />
* ''A Mixed Marriage.'' London: Methuen, 1903.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Sanyasi.'' London: Methuen, 1904.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Tea Planter.'' London: Chatto and Windus, 1906.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Inevitable Law.'' London: Chatto and Windus, 1907.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Dark Corners''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1908.<ref name=":2" />
* ''On the [[Coromandel Coast]].'' London: Smith Elder, 1908.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Unlucky Mark''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1909.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Sacrifice''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1910.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Rajah.'' London: Chatto and Windus, 1911.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Outcaste''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1912.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Malabar Magician''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1912.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Love in the Hills''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1913.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Southern India.'' Black, 1914.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/whowaswhoinliter0002unse |title=Who was who in literature, 1906-1934 |date=1979 |publisher=Detroit : Gale Research Company |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-8103-0402-4}}</ref>
* ''Love in a Palace''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1915.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Love by an Indian River.'' London: Chatto and Windus, 1916.<ref name=":2" />
* ''A Love Tangle''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1917.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Missing''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1917.<ref name=":2" />
* ''A Love Offensive.'' London: Chatto and Windus, 1918.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grimes |first=Janet |url=http://archive.org/details/novelsinenglishb0000grim |title=Novels in English by women, 1891-1920 : a preliminary checklist |date=1981 |publisher=New York : Garland Pub. |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-8240-9522-2}}</ref>
* ''Desire and Delight''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1919.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Diamonds.'' London: [[Hodder & Stoughton|Hodder and Stoughton]], 1920.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Rajah's Daughter.'' London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1921.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Swami's Curse.'' London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1923.<ref name=":2" />
* ''One of the Best.'' London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1923.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Living Dangerously.'' London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Pulling the Strings.'' London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925.<ref name=":2" />
* ''A Question of Colour.'' London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1926.<ref name=":2" />
* ''A Question of Love.'' London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1928.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Two Brides.'' London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1929.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Wishing Stone.'' London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Get on the Wooing.'' London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1931.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Lady of the Rifle.'' London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1932.<ref name=":4" />
* ''Magic in the Air''. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1933.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Old Dagoba''. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1934.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Patrick''. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1934.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Elusive Bachelor''. London: Hutchinson, 1935.<ref name=":2" />
* ''A Spell of the Devil''. London: Hutchinson, 1935.<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Familiar Stranger.'' London, Hutchinson, 1936.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Chowra's Revenge''. London: Hutchinson, 1937.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Treasure, Love and Snakes''. London: [[Mills & Boon|Mills and Boon]], 1938.<ref name=":2" />
* ''Jackals and Others''. London: Mills and Boon, 1939.<ref name=":2" />

== References ==
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== External links==
*[https://india.vardill.org/penny Works by F. E. Penny] at [https://india.vardill.org Veranda Archive]

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