Lanoe Falconer
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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