Elizabeth De la Pasture
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had a successful career as a popular playwright (few of whose dramas reached print) and novelist. She also wrote short stories for periodicals, and a single story for children which had great success a generation after her death. After being active through the last decade of the nineteenth and first decade of the twentieth century, she published almost nothing after her second marriage except for editing a collection of colonial memoirs. She is often confused with her better-known daughter, who wrote as
and whose second given name was Elizabeth.
- BirthName: Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle Bonham
- Married: De la Pasture; LadyCliffordAmong her writings, EDM used her married name and title only for Our Days on the Gold Coast, 1918.
- Pseudonym: Mrs. Henry de la Pasture
- Titled: LadyCliffordAmong her writings, EDM used her married name and title only for Our Days on the Gold Coast, 1918.
- Indexed: Betty de la Pasture; De la Pasture, Elizabeth Lydia R.Peter's Mother in 1906, even though the same piece is headed Mrs. Henry de la Pasture.gave her name in this form at the end of her prefatory address in the US edition of