Eliza Dawson
married (against her father's initial wishes) Archibald Fletcher
, Scottish advocate and reformer, who was forty-seven to her twenty-one.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
29, 42-4
Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, AMS Press, 2002, pp. 283-35.
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Residence
Eliza Fletcher
EF
's husband
bought the small property of Park Hall in Stirlingshire, where they began to spend gradually more of their time.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
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Textual Production
Eliza Fletcher
Five months after her husband's death, EF
began on a Memoir of Archibald Fletcher
, Advocate, with a sketch of the political state of feeling in Edinburgh, from 1791 to 1815.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.