Elizabeth Cobbold

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EC was an amateur writer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, who published poems in several genres (some of them in periodicals) and a novel, and edited an anthology.
Oil painting of Elizabeth Cobbold, attributed to George Frost, c. 1815. She leans on her left elbow, chin on hand, gazing off to her upper left. Her other hand rests, apparently, on a stack of large, thin volumes. Her hair is mostly up, with curled locks on her forehead. She wears a loose, low-cut dress, with a red and black shawl.

Milestones

25 February 1764

Elizabeth Knipe (later EC ) was born in Watling Street, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1783

Elizabeth Knipe (later EC ) published at Ipswich as Eliza Knipe her Poems on Various Subjects.
Feminist Companion Archive.

17 October 1824

EC died at Holywells in Ipswich, after a week unconscious, of an unnamed alarming illness
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
which had struck her down in July.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
94 (1824): 569

By October 1825

After her death, EC 's poems were collected and edited by Laetitia Jermyn , with a memoir.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
32 (1825): 550

Biography

Birth and Family

25 February 1764

Elizabeth Knipe (later EC ) was born in Watling Street, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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