Lettice Ulpha Cooper ( 3 SEP 1897 - 24 JUL 1994 )

Born: 3 SEP 1897 at Eccles, Lancashire
Source: GRO + Death + 1939 Register

Father: Leonard Cooper
Mother: Agnes Helena Fraser

Died: 24 JUL 1994 at Norwich, Norfolk
Source: GRO + Probate


Notes


1897 Birth
Cooper, Lettice Ulpha
Mother's Maiden Name: Fraser
GRO D1897 - Barton upon Irwell, Barton upon Irwell [includes Eccles] 8c 691
Source: www.gro.gov.uk + www.lancashirebmd.org.uk BAR/81/20

1901 Census

1911 Census

1921 Census

1939 Register

1945 - 1963 Electoral Roll

7/3/1957 Probate of Mother

1994 Death
Cooper, Lettice Ulpha
Born: 3 Sep 1897
GRO Jul 1994 - Norwich C11B 6391C 23

19/9/1994 Probate
Cooper, Lettice Ulpha
4 Wherry Quayside, Anchor St, Coltishall, Norwich
Died: 24 July 1994
Registry: Winchester
Not exceeding £125000
Source: probatesearch.service.gov.uk 9452420377C

..... Lettice Cooper nee Lettice Ulpha Cooper ..... born September 3rd at Eccles in Lancashire, although she was brought up in Leeds. She decided to become a writer at the age of seven and her first novel The Lighted Room was published twenty years later. In all she produced 60 novels, several biographies (George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson) and some children's books. She was a leader of the campaign to secure the Public Lending Rights in 1978 as one of the five founder members of the Writers' Action Group. As she approached the age of 90 some of her works were reissued by Virago and Victor Gollancz and a dinner was held in her honour at the Savile Club. In 1978 she was appointed OBE and she died in 1994
Source: web.ukonline.co.uk/m.gratton/19th Century/1897.htm

TO DO Bradford Lib Times Obit/Death July 1994



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