Ellen Weeton

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Standard Name: Weeton, Ellen
Birth Name: Ellen Weeton
Married Name: Ellen Stock
Nickname: Nelly
EW is remarkable as a letter-writer, diarist, and autobiographer. She also wrote reviews, poems, and essays.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Margaret Oliphant
This novel relates to her earlier Hester, 1883 and Joyce, 1888. Kirsteen's brutal father (who has been manager of a slave plantation, and goes as far as killing to impose his will on...

Timeline

July 1765: Elizabeth Parker, an independent widow of...

Building item

July 1765

Elizabeth Parker , an independent widow of Alkincoats in Lancashire and an energetic diarist, eloped to Gretna Green with John Shackleton , a much younger merchant: this proved a very bad choice.
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, 1998.
73ff, 379-80

Texts

Bagley, John Joseph et al. “Introduction”. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess, edited by Edward Hall, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
Weeton, Ellen. Miss Weeton: Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Oxford University Press, H, Milford, 1939, 2 vols.