Elizabeth Helme Somerville

One of their offspring, her mother's namesake born in 1774, published her children's books as Elizabeth Helme or Elizabeth Helme, Junior, beginning in 1799. She acquired by marriage, by 1801, the name of Somerville...

In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...

EH 's daughter Elizabeth, later Somerville , issued the first of her children's books, James Manners, Little John, and Their Dog Bluff. Several of her titles have been misattributed to her mother, while others remain doubtful.