Winifred Peck, née Knox, (1882–1962) was an English novelist and biographer. Biography Winifred Frances Knox was born in Headington, England in 1882. Her father was Edmund Arbuthnott Knox, the fourth Bishop of Manchester. Knox 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. Knox's first book, written in 1909, was a biography of Louis IX. In 1911 she married James Peck, a British civil servant,. Ten years after writing her first book, Winifred Peck began a novel-writing career which saw the publication of twenty-five books over a period of forty years, including House-bound (1942), which was reprinted in 2007 by Persephone Books. She also wrote two books on the subject of her own childhood, A Little Learning (1952) and Home for the Holidays (1955). Peck had three sons (the second predeceased his parents), and when her husband was awarded a knighthood in 1938 she assumed the title of Lady Peck. Peck was the sister of E. V. Knox, editor of Punch; Ronald Knox, theologian and writer; Dilly Knox, cryptographer; Wilfred Lawrence Knox, clergyman; and Ethel Knox. Her niece was the Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald who wrote a biography of her father, E. V. Knox, and her uncles, entitled The Knox Brothers. Lady Peck died on 20 November 1962. Books In her Who's Who entry, Peck listed the following books by her: The Court of a Saint, 1909 Twelve Birthdays, 1918 The Closing Gates, 1922 A Patchwork Tale, 1925 The King of Melido, 1927 A Change of Master, 1928 The Warrielaw Jewel, 1933 The Skirts of Time, 1935 The Skies are Falling, 1936 They Come, They Go, 1937 Coming Out, 1938 Let Me Go Back, 1940 Bewildering Cares, 1940 A Garden Enclosed, 1941 Housebound, 1942 Tranquillity, 1943 There is a Fortress, 1945 Through Eastern Windows, 1947 Veiled Destinies, 1948 Arrest the Bishop, 1949 A Clear Dawn, 1949 Facing South, 1950 Unseen Array, 1951 Winding Ways, 1952 A Little Learning, 1952 Home for the Holidays, 1955 Notes and references Notes References External links Author Profile at Persephone Books House-Bound at Persephone Books 1882 births 1962 deaths 20th-century British novelists Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford British biographers 20th-century biographers