Born in Baltimore, where she married in 1803 Jerome Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon—who insisted that her husband return without her; while their separation was permanent, she entered Parisian society following the Bourbon restoration.

REFERENCES TO Elizabeth Bonaparte [née Patterson]:

Sir Thomas Charles Morgan to Lady Morgan, 29 May 1826 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)