Eliza Fletcher

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Writing during the later eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, EG was an early poet and occasional travel diarist, a lifelong letter-writer, habitual family memoirist, and eventually an autobiographer. Her involvement in political and reformist movements of her day gives much of her writing a strong political interest.

Milestones

15 January 1770

Eliza Dawson (later EF ) was born at Oxton, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, an only child.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Mary, Lady Richardson, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation.
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Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, AMS Press, pp. 283-35.
289

15 January 1838

On her sixty-eighth birthday EF began, at the request of her youngest daughter, Mary, to write her autobiography.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Mary, Lady Richardson, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation.
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From about 1848

EF 's retrospective autobiographical narrative gives way to intermittent journal entries and letters.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Mary, Lady Richardson, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation.
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5 February 1858

EF died in Edinburgh at eighty-eight, from the exhaustion of nature.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Mary, Lady Richardson, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation.
282

After June 1874

More than a hundred years after her birth, EF 's Autobiography (with selected letters) was privately printed at Carlisle by her daughter Mary Richardson.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Mary, Lady Richardson, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation.
prelims, title-page

Biography

Birth and Family

15 January 1770

Eliza Dawson (later EF ) was born at Oxton, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, an only child.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Mary, Lady Richardson, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation.
1
Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, AMS Press, pp. 283-35.
289

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