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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Elizabeth Smith
From late 1792 until the following February Elizabeth and her sisters stayed in Bath (where their mother had gone ahead of them to bear her new baby son).
Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809.