Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(known as Harriet) met the Smiths in summer 1789, when Elizabeth was twelve, and formed a long-lasting friendship with both her and her mother. Elizabeth met another close friend, Mary Hunt
...
Instructor
Elizabeth Smith
At three years old ES
loved books and at four she could read extremely well.
Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809.
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The move to Suffolk brought the Smiths a governess who was only sixteen but whose abilities exceeded her...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Smith
One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith
met Mary Hunt
, with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches...
Reception
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Hunt
circulated Smith's letter about climbing Snowdon, and it reached an illustrious lady.
Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809.
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ES
responded by accusing her friend of treason and ill usage: she wanted no more letters, she said...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Smith
Soon afterwards Smith sent Mary Hunt
her Supposed Translation from a Welsh Poem, lately dug up at Piercefield, in the same spot where Llewellyn ap Gryffydd
was slain, December 10, 1281 [sic].
Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809.