Elizabeth Meeke
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- BirthName: Elizabeth Allen
- Nickname: Bessy
- Self-constructed: Mrs Bruceseems to have gone under this name as a woman scandalously separated from her husband.
- Married: Meeke; Rawlings
- Pseudonyms: Gabrielli; The Author of The Mysterious Wife; The Author of The SicilianThis name was probably suggested by that of the singer, whom the Burney family much admired, and whom the future had heard in 1775.frequently gives her name or pseudonym on title-pages, as well as alluding to her previous works.
- Indexed: Elizabeth Meeke; Mrs Meeke; Mrs MeekA clergyman's wife named Dictionary of National Biography entry. This identification stuck for generations of scholars, though a, who died in 1816, was identified as probably Mrs Meeke the novelist in the original
Minerva Press catalogue of 1798 had already named the novelist as Elizabeth Meeke.