Eglinton Wallace
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Werter a poem and a statement of her own opinion. She continued writing plays, and from 1792 a number of prose commentaries (one of them entitled a sermon) on the moral and political state of the nation in the age of revolutions.
's career in print spanned less than a decade. She began in 1787, with a published comedy and a contribution to the controversy over
's sentimental novel - BirthName: Eglinton or Eglintoun MaxwellHer given name is rendered in a Maxwell family tree on Ancestry.co.uk (which, however, gives her dates as 1754-94) and by The Peerage as Eglintoun. A report of her marriage has Eglantina.It seems likely that she was christened to mark the family connection with the Earls of Eglinton (her paternal grandmother was a daughter of the ninth Earl). Boswell's editors and believed Eglinton to be a much more likely form than Eglantine. Yet their editions, and most other sources including the ODNB, give her name as Eglantine.
- Nickname: Betty
- Married: Wallace
- Pseudonym: Lady W-ll-ce
- Titled: LadyShe continued to call herself Lady Wallace even after being divorced.