Eliza Fay

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EF , a traveller and businesswoman of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, wrote lively, observant, opinionated travel diaries and letters which did well when she printed them.

Milestones

1756

EF was born as a Miss C. She had two sisters.
Forster, E. M., and Eliza Fay. “Introductory Note”. Original Letters from India, Hogarth Press, pp. 7-24.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

14 November 1779-April 1780

EF transcribed the travel journal into which her letters had grown.
Fay, Eliza, and E. M. Forster. Original Letters from India. Hogarth Press.
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1782

EF , in need of money, was urged to publish her travel letters, but declined because of the pains and penalties . . . generally, inflicted on female authorships.
Fay, Eliza, and E. M. Forster. Original Letters from India. Hogarth Press.
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Newly separated from her husband , she decided to turn to business instead.

February-March 1815

EF , at Blackheath near London, wrote up her later travel experiences for publication.
Fay, Eliza, and E. M. Forster. Original Letters from India. Hogarth Press.
227-71

9 September 1816

EF died in Calcutta, where she had arrived again in May, leaving no money and no will.
Forster, E. M., and Eliza Fay. “Introductory Note”. Original Letters from India, Hogarth Press, pp. 7-24.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1817

EF 's Original Letters from India, left unfinished at her death, were posthumously published at Calcutta.
Fay, Eliza, and E. M. Forster. Original Letters from India. Hogarth Press.
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1925

EF 's Original Letters from India was re-published by the Hogarth Press , with introductory and terminal notes by E. M. Forster .
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson.
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Biography

Birth and Background

1756

EF was born as a Miss C. She had two sisters.
Forster, E. M., and Eliza Fay. “Introductory Note”. Original Letters from India, Hogarth Press, pp. 7-24.
9
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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