Ierne L. Plunket

Ierne Arthur Lifford Plunket FRHistS (1885–1970) was a British author of medieval history and children's books.

Biography

Ierne was born in Cookham on 9 May 1885, the ninth child of Arthur Cecil Crampton Plunket, a younger son of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket, and his wife Louisa Hewitt.[1] Educated at Queen Anne's School and Oxford High School,[2][3] she studied with the Society of Oxford Home Students, and received her MA when Oxford began admitting women to degrees in 1920.[4]

In 1917, she served at Scottish Women's Hospitals in Russia. She served with the Women's Royal Naval Service in 1918 in recruiting.[3][5]

From 1915, she began writing books of medieval history, with the aim to "make Mediaeval Europe live",[6] and with a particular focus on Spain.

After the war, she worked as a history lecturer at University College, Southampton, and then began writing adventure and school stories for children.[2]

She died at Royal Tunbridge Wells on 11 April 1970.[2][7]

Select works

  • Fall of the Old Order (1909)[8]
  • Isabel of Castile (1915)[9]
  • Europe in the Middle Ages (1922)[6]
  • Stories from Mediaeval Spain (1923)[10]

References

  1. ^ Lodge, Edmund (1892). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility ... Hurst and Blackett, Limited. p. 498.
  2. ^ a b c Auchmuty, Rosemary; Wotton, Joy (2000). The Encyclopaedia of School Stories: The encyclopaedia of girls' school stories. Ashgate. pp. 271–272. ISBN 978-0-7546-0082-4.
  3. ^ a b Who was who Among English and European Authors, 1931-1949: N-Z. Gale Research Company. 1978. p. 1132. ISBN 978-0-8103-0040-8.
  4. ^ University, Oxford (1921). Oxford University Gazette Vol. 51 1920–1921. p. 265. doi:10.25446/oxford.21905568.v1.
  5. ^ Admiralty, Great Britain (1919). The Navy List. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 1870.
  6. ^ a b Plunket, Ierne L. (2 June 2022). Europe in the Middle Ages. DigiCat.
  7. ^ M. M. H. (17 April 1970). "Miss Ierne Plunket". The Times. No. 57846. London. Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  8. ^ Plunket, Ierne Lifford (1909). Fall of the Old Order: A Textbook of European History 1763-1815. Clarendon Press.
  9. ^ Plunket, Ierne L. (2 March 2025). Isabel of Castile and the making of the Spanish nation, 1451-1504. Good Press.
  10. ^ Plunket, Ierne L. (1923). Stories from mediaeval Spain, by Ierne L. Plunket. Sheldon Press, Macmillan Company.
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