Elizabeth's father, Miles Dawson
, was land-agent to the local proprietor Wilmer Gossip
.
Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, AMS Press, pp. 283 -5.
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He cherished his only child, although when she was seven her grandmother Mrs Brudend took her away for a while...