Elizabeth Boyd
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Standard Name: Boyd, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Boyd
Pseudonym: Louisa
Pseudonym: E— B—
Pseudonym: Eliza
Pseudonym: Eloisa
Pseudonym: Bartholomew Broadbottom
Used Form: E. B.
Used Form: Eliz. Boyd
was a versatile, ususally satirical author in the earlier half of the eighteenth century. Writing for her livelihood, she undertook a remarkable number of genres, many of which she hybridized or otherwise experimented with. Her poetry includes fantasy and political comment as well as compliments to patrons: she also wrote romance, ballad-opera, masque, and riddles..