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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. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Elizabeth Fletcher [née Dawson]: Sydney Smith to Elizabeth Fletcher, March 1827 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) | |
