Eliza Ogilvy

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EO is mainly recognized as a poet who wrote sometimes innovative lyrics on a wide range of topics from experiences of motherhood to contemporary politics. Beginning in the 1840s, she published five volumes of poetry, a few short stories, and a memoir of her friend Elizabeth Barrett Browning .
Reproduction of painted portrait of Eliza Ogilvy by George Frederick Watts, 1886. Her face is in profile and the background is a murky mixture of yellow, blue, and grey tones. She is wearing a brown coat and has her caramel coloured hair secured with a thin brown headband.

Milestones

6 January 1822
Eliza Anne Harris Dick (later EO ) was born at Perth in Scotland.
Ogilvy, Eliza, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Eliza Ogilvy. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, 1973, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
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Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
By 12 January 1856
EO (as Mrs. D. Ogilvy) published Poems of Ten Years, 1846-1855.
Ogilvy, Eliza. Poems of Ten Years. Thomas Bosworth, 1856.
prelims
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870.
1472 (1856): 38
1893
Decades after she had ceased to publish her own poetry, EO wrote a memoir of Elizabeth Barrett Browning for a new edition of Barrett Browning's Poems.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Ogilvy, Eliza, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Eliza Ogilvy. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, 1973, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
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3 January 1912
EO died at Ealing in West London.
Ogilvy, Eliza, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Eliza Ogilvy. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, 1973, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
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Biography

Birth and Family

6 January 1822
Eliza Anne Harris Dick (later EO ) was born at Perth in Scotland.
Ogilvy, Eliza, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Eliza Ogilvy. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, 1973, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
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Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

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