Fryer, Mary Beacock. Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, 1762-1850, A Biography. Dundurn Press, 1989.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | John Graves Simcoe
, husband of EPS
, died at Exeter after falling ill at sea. He had been despatched on a mission to Portugal, intended as an interim assignment before taking up the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | As Lieutenant-Governor EPS
's husband
is well regarded by Canadian historians—particularly for his proposal, when the legislature of Upper Canada first met on 17 September 1792, for banning slavery from the colony. The measure failed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | Elizabeth Postuma Gwillim
married Lieutenant-Colonel John Graves Simcoe
, who nine years later became the first Lieutenant-Governor of the newly distinct British colony of Upper Canada (now Ontario). Fryer, Mary Beacock. Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, 1762-1850, A Biography. Dundurn Press, 1989. 24 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III
fell ill, probably... |
Residence | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | EPS
arrived in harbour at Quebec with her two youngest children and her husband
, who had been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (now newly separated from Lower). Fryer, Mary Beacock. Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, 1762-1850, A Biography. Dundurn Press, 1989. 47 |
Residence | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | EPS
and her husband
landed in England after their years in Canada. Fryer, Mary Beacock. Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, 1762-1850, A Biography. Dundurn Press, 1989. 166 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | EPS
kept a five-year diary of her travels in Canada with her husband
and two of her small children; this was in addition to her letters home. Fryer, Mary Beacock. Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, 1762-1850, A Biography. Dundurn Press, 1989. 38, 39 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | Two years after closing, perforce, her Canadian journals, EPS
kept a diary (which survives) of a tour of west-country England made with her husband
, who was carrying out inspection as military commander of the... |
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