Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan, writing in the early nineteenth century, was a poet and translator whose fables, fairy tales, and narrative poems displayed her skill, charm, and range. An anonymous novel of 1796 has only recently been identified as hers.
Milestones
4 October 1763 Elizabeth Jervis (later EPW) was born in
London, the eldest daughter in her family.
April 1796 Six months before her marriage, Elizabeth Jervis (later EPW) published anonymously, "for the Author,"
a novel only recently identified as hers,
Agatha; or, a Narrative of Recent Events, in three volumes.
1842 EPW published what appears to be her final work,
Old Stories Versified, of which copies are very rare (as they are of many of her works).
1845 Her editor
John Goss dates EPW's death in this year.
