Edith Escombe (1866–1950) was an English writer of stories and essays born in Manchester.
She later lived at Bishopstoke, near Eastleigh, Hampshire with her mother, who died in 1930, and her sisters.
[3] Escombe's first book, Bits I Remember, published under the pseudonym "A Grown-Up" (1892), gives an entertaining account of her childhood and her education by governesses and in boarding school.
Escombe's volume of essays, Old Maids' Children (1906), explores child-rearing from the viewpoint of an aunt.
A Monthly Magazine of Home-Training and Culture, covering aspects of child care and education such as "over-education", "natural growth" and "Christmas without children".