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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fletcher, Mrs. (Eliza Dawson), 1770-1858 DNB: Fletcher [née Dawson], Elizabeth [Eliza] (1770-1858), poet and autobiographer LBT ID: ElFletc1858 VIAF ID: 39247010 LOC ID: nr93010951 | B/BAP: 1770-01-15 DIED: 1858-02-05 |
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A Yorkshire woman who married the Scottish law-reformer Archibald Fletcher and became an
Edinburgh hostess and friend of Anne Grant; in later life she settled in the Lake District
and befriended Wordsworth. Her Autobiography was published in
1874. | |
REFERENCES TO Elizabeth Fletcher [née Dawson]: John Murray to Edmund Cartwright, 31 March 1803 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, September 1812 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1:
¶ 5 Sydney Smith to Edward Davenport, 10 February 1821 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1:
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