Matilda Betham
published at Ipswich her first book, Elegies, and other Small Poems (including many in ballad metre), dedicated to Lady Jerningham
.
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Mary Matilda Betham
Well before her move to London, while she was still a girl, Matilda Betham began to attract the attention of patrons. She was a guest in the houses both of Sir Charles
and Lady Boughton or Rouse Boughton
