Rose Champion de Crespigny

Rose Champion de Crespigny (born Annie Rose Charlotte Cooper-Key; circa 1859 – 10 February 1935) was an English artist and author.

The daughter of Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key (later transcribed as Cooper-Key), GCB, ADC, FRS, and his wife, Lady Charlotte Lavinia (née McNeil), Rose married Phillip Augustus Champion De Crespigny , with whom she had two sons, Henry and Frederick.^[1] Her paintings tended toward landscape;^[2] her writing, after early forays into genealogical and local history, soon settled into popular fiction. Her work was described in a contemporary review as having "a certain graceful facility"^[3]

Select bibliography

• Key to the Roll of the Huguenots Settled in the United Kingdom. (1884)
• The Roll of the Highland Clans of Scotland (1889)
• The New Forest; its traditions, inhabitants and customs (1895)
• From Behind the Arras (1902)
• The Mischief of a Glove (1903)
• The Rose Brocade (1905)
• The Grey Domino (1906)
• The Spanish Prisoner (1907)
• My Cousin Cynthia, and Others (1908)
• The Coming of Aurora (1909)
• The Valley of Achor (1910)
• The Five of Spades (1912)
• The Mark (1912)
• Hester and I (1915)
• Stories of To-day and Yesterday (1917)
• The Moving Finger (1919)
• The Shears of Atropos (1919)
• The Villa on the Borderive Road (1919)
• The Witness in the Wood (1919)
• The Case of Mr. Fitzgordon (1919)
• The Voice (1919)
• The Mind of a Woman (1922)
• The Valley of Orchids (1923)
• Tangled Evidence (1924)
• The Missing Piece (1927)
• The Dark Sea (1927)
• Straws in the Wind (1928)
• The Eye of Nemesis (1931)
• Glimpses into Infinity (1931)
• A Case for the C.I.D. (1933)
• The Riddle of the Emeralds (1934)
• This World and Beyond (1934)

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References

1. The National Archives, http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F67478
2. Artists' Papers Register, Rose Champion De Crespigny
3. The Spectator Review: The Rose Brocade 22 April (1905)
4. Amazon Authors Page: Rose Champion de Crespigny