Elizabeth Cartwright Coltman

EH 's mother (who in her youth had been a poet, publisher's editor, and book reviewer) died at Bow Bridge House; Heyrick recorded her feelings in her diary.

Her mother, born Elizabeth Cartwright , was a remarkable woman. She became engaged to please her family, but her fiancé died. After this she visited London and stayed with the publisher Robert Dodsley . While...

ES 's group of friends included the writer Susanna Watts (her distant relation), the Reverend John Dudley (who was suspected of being closer than a friend, and whose wife, Ann , made trouble for Sleath)...

CH 's friends included novelists Sarah Harriet Burney and Robert Bage , publisher Sir Richard Phillips , Elizabeth Arnold (whom she calls sister of Catharine Macaulay , but who was actually the sister of Macaulay's...

CH (now nearly ninety) published in Ainsworth's Magazine her sketch of the Coltman family: that of Elizabeth Heyrick 's mother .

The title-page bore CH 's name, and mentioned her previous novel. This book too is epistolary, dominated more than its precedessor by its heroine. Dorothy Penrose is the mountaineer of the title (the term here...

One manuscript note in the British Library copy ascribes this to Eliza Coltman (which could mean either EH , called by her birth name, or her mother ), while another note re-ascribes it to Mr...