Eleanor Tatlock

26 April 1769 - 20 January 1833

ET is an earnestly religious poet of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, with some humour and some feminist consciousness. She writes narrative poems, hymns, odes, and fables.

Milestones

26 April 1769

ET was born at Alverstoke in Hampshire, on the outskirts of Portsmouth, no doubt because of her father's naval employment.

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1794

ET wrote the first poem which bears a date in her published collection: a polemic against novels.

Tatlock, Eleanor. Poems. S. Burton, 1811.

2: 98ff

Shortly before 20 January 1833

ET died in Nottingham. She was buried at St Mary's Church there on this date.

Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Eleanor Tatlock.

Biography

Birth and Family

26 April 1769

ET was born at Alverstoke in Hampshire, on the outskirts of Portsmouth, no doubt because of her father's naval employment.

Ancestry.co.uk.