Elizabeth Bonhote

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During the later eighteenth century EB published seven novels (one historical) and a conduct book. Her volume of poetry dates from the next century. The conduct book had the greatest success. On most issues she is stereotypically conservative, but she shows humour and insight about the predicament of the woman writer. She was clearly serious about her own career.
  • BirthName: Elizabeth Mapes
  • Married: Bonhote; Mrs. Bonhote of Bungay
  • Pseudonyms: The Author of Hortensia, Rambles of Mr Frankley, and The Fashionable Friend; E. B.
Title page of volume 3 of "Olivia or Deserted Bride", a novel which Elizabeth Bonhote published anonymously but with mention of earlier works.

Milestones

Shortly before 11 April 1744

Elizabeth Mapes (later EB ) was born in Earsham Street at Bungay in Suffolk, close to the ruined Castle.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mann, Ethel. Old Bungay. Heath Cranton, 1934.
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1769

Elizabeth Mapes (later EB ) apparently published her first novel, entitled Hortensia; or, The Distressed Wife, and issued at London and Norwich as by a Lady, but identified as hers from the title-page of Olivia, 1786.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 403

By February 1788

EB published by subscription a work in a genre new to her, The Parental Monitor, a conduct book which was highly successful in its day.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
197

11 June 1818

EB died at Bungay, aged seventy-four.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
lxxxviii: 2 (1818) 88

Biography

Birth and Family

Shortly before 11 April 1744

Elizabeth Mapes (later EB ) was born in Earsham Street at Bungay in Suffolk, close to the ruined Castle.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mann, Ethel. Old Bungay. Heath Cranton, 1934.
214

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