Left alone in the world and without financial support, Elstob had at first the idea of opening a large, ambitious school in Chelsea, then still outside London.
Perry, Ruth, and George Ballard. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Wayne State University Press, pp. 12-48.
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(Much later in her life she...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Elstob
Most important among EE
's scholarly circle were George Hickes
and her brother
. The group of scholars known as the Oxford Saxonists, to their credit, seems to have welcomed her on terms of equality...
Timeline
3 November 1703: John Tipper, a schoolmaster of Coventry,...
Building item
3 November 1703
John Tipper
, a schoolmaster of Coventry, wrote to Humfrey Wanley
about his projected Ladies' Diary, or The Woman's Almanack.
Texts
Wanley, Humfrey. The Diary of Humfrey Wanley, 1715-1726. Editors Wright, Cyril Ernest and Ruth C. Wright, Bibliographical Society, 1966.