Elizabeth Ham

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Though almost forgotten, EH is remarkable as an autobiographer and even more remarkable as a the author of a single novel. Writing and publishing in the earlier nineteenth century, she also produced a grammar textbook, poetry, and journalism.

Milestones

30 November 1783

EH was born at North Perrott, near Crewkerne, Somerset.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber.
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About 1850

EH , at sixty-six, began to trace out the influences that were most active in forming the present individual Me out of the little neglected girl of my earliest remembrance.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber.
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1 March 1859

Elizabeth Ham died at the house of her latest employer, Wick House at Brislington just south-east of Bristol, of heart disease.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1945

EH 's autobiography was published, nearly a century after her death, as Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, after excerpts had been read on BBC programmes and printed in The Listener.
Ham, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820, edited by Eric Gillett, Faber and Faber, pp. 5-12.
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Biography

Birth

30 November 1783

EH was born at North Perrott, near Crewkerne, Somerset.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber.
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