Henry Justice

According to her own account Elizabeth Surby met her future husband, Henry Justice (whom in print she gives the name of Johnson), when she was only thirteen (in about 1716) and he, at twenty, was...

In Russia, EJ heard by mid-May 1736 that her husband, Henry Justice , was in prison, charged with Robbery of the Library at Cambridge . He was tried for the theft of sixty books...

Back in England, EJ found her life falling into many of its old patterns. She continued to have difficulty getting money out of her husband . He induced the children to behave badly towards her...

By mid-1734, EJ , in debt because of her divorced husband 's failure to pay her maintenance, took a job as governess to the three daughters of Hill Evans , a British merchant who lived...

EJ , divorced from her husband and forced to support herself and her children, sailed from England as governess in the family of the British St Petersburg merchant Hill Evans .

EJ set out from St Petersburg, compelled to return to England from her governess job because of developments in her estranged husband 's legal punishment for stealing books.