an English author whose works include, Secresy; or The Ruin on the Rock (1795), as well as several children's books. Fenwick's letters (1798–1828) to her friend Mary Hays were edited and published in 1927 by A.F. Wedd in a book titled The Fate of the Fenwicks. She was a good friend of Charles and Mary Lamb, as well as Thomas Holcroft, Crabb Robinson and other literary figures. She and her husband were such intimates of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft that when the latter was dying, they spent the last week in that house.
