Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Eglinton Wallace
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Standard Name: Wallace, Eglinton
Birth Name: Maxwell
Used Form: Miss Eglatina Maxwell
Nickname: Betty
Married Name: Wallace
Titled: Lady
Used Form: Lady W-ll-ce
Indexed Name: Eglantine
EW
's career in print spanned less than a decade. She began in 1787, with a published comedy and a contribution to the controversy over Goethe
's sentimental novel Werter a poem and a statement of her own opinion. She continued writing plays, and from 1792 a number of prose commentaries (one of them entitled a sermon) on the moral and political state of the nation in the age of revolutions.