Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan

04 October 1763 - 01 January 1845

EPW , writing in the early nineteenth century, was a poet and translator whose fables, fairy tales, and narrative poems displayed her skill, charm, and range. An anonymous novel of 1796 has only recently been identified as hers.

Milestones

4 October 1763

Elizabeth Jervis (later EPW ) was born in London, the eldest daughter in her family.

The International Genealogical Index spells her name as Elisabeth in its listing of her birth, but later as Elizabeth in the record of her marriage.

Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. “Preface”. Agatha, edited by John Goss.

forthcoming

“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

April 1796

Six months before her marriage, Elizabeth Jervis (later EPW ) published anonymously, for the Author,

English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

a novel only recently identified as hers, Agatha; or, a Narrative of Recent Events, in three volumes.

Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. “Preface”. Agatha, edited by John Goss.

forthcoming

Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.

1: 654-5

English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1842

EPW published what appears to be her final work, Old Stories Versified, of which copies are very rare (as they are of many of her works).

The British Library Catalogue does not list this work, though it is listed in both the OCLC and the Bodleian Library Catalogue. The Bodleian 's copy, bound up by Sidney Tongue (shelf-mark Vet. A6 e. 1059), has a half-title but no title-page.

OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1845

Her editor John Goss dates EPW 's death in this year.

A private submission to the International Genealogical Index puts the death of Elizabeth Jervis Pipe Wolferton on 26 April 1859, but since this woman was said to have been born at Hastings in 1799 it cannot have been EPW .

“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. “Preface”. Agatha, edited by John Goss.

forthcoming

Biography

Birth and Family

4 October 1763

Elizabeth Jervis (later EPW ) was born in London, the eldest daughter in her family.

The International Genealogical Index spells her name as Elisabeth in its listing of her birth, but later as Elizabeth in the record of her marriage.

Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. “Preface”. Agatha, edited by John Goss.

forthcoming

“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.