ER
's mother was Anne (Palgrave) Rigby
. After her husband's death, she brought up their children alone.
Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland, 1996.
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Residence
Elizabeth Rigby
ER
moved from England to Edinburgh, where she settled in St Bernard's Crescent with her mother
and sisters for seven years.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
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Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, 1895, p. Various pages.
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Textual Production
Elizabeth Rigby
ER
anonymously published her travel diary A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic, compiled from a series of letters written to her mother
.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.