Samuel Smiles:

Memoir of John Murray

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Elizabeth Fletcher [née Dawson] (1770-1858)

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. 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.