Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
John Shackleton
Standard Name: Shackleton, John
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July 1765: Elizabeth Parker, an independent widow of...
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July 1765
Elizabeth Parker
, an independent widow of Alkincoats in Lancashire and an energetic diarist, eloped to Gretna Green with John Shackleton
, a much younger merchant: this proved a very bad choice.
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, 1998.