Penelope Wallace [SEP] place of death
Penelope Wallace
Penelope Wallace (30 May 1923 – 13 January 1997, Oxford) was an English crime writer and the daughter of Edgar Wallace.
Educated at Rodean, she founded the Edgar Wallace Society in 1969 and remained its president until her death. She was very active within The Society of Woman Journalists, and became its chair in 1982. In the 1980, she became chair of the London Press Club, which had only begun to admit women in 1972 and was also chair of the Crime Writers' Association (
promote their race”.
Success as a humorist allowed Irwin to devote himself to what he considered his serious work, novels and articles with social and political purpose, writing that is now largely forgotten except when cited by historians as representative of widespread pre-World War II racism.
Irwin was married twice. In 1901 he married Grace Adelaide Luce (1877–1914). Over a year after her death, in January 1916 he married Laetitia McDonald (Oct 25, 1889 – Sep 6, 1965). Wallace and Laetitia