Elizabeth Elstob is noteworthy as the first female scholar in the newly opening field of the Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) language. She was also a translator, a biographer, and a promoter of learning for women and of the study of women's history and culture: in short, a feminist.
Milestones
29 September 1683 EE was born at
Newcastle, the youngest of eight children born in her family.
1715 EE published, together, her
Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue and
An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities.
3 June 1756 EE died in her eighties, after nearly twenty years as a dependent of the
Duchess of Portland.
