She probably adopted this form of her Christian name in honour of Margaretta—or Meta—Klopstock
, whose letters she had encountered through her admiration for the Klopstocks' translator, Elizabeth Smith
.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
xiii
Married: Gatty
Indexed: Mrs. Alfred Gatty
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Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
This edition was published by Colburn
. EOB
's excellent scholarly introduction dwells on recent literary achievements of women. She does not explicitly identify the British ones she refers to, but they are clearly (as...
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Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
EOB
gave her name, and said on the title-page that she intended the volume as a sequel to the biography of Klopstock and his wife
by the scholar Elizabeth Smith
, which had been published posthumously.
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Elizabeth Smith
Memoirs of Frederick
and Margaret Klopstock
. Translated from the German by the author of Fragments in Prose and Verse (Elizabeth Smith
) was posthumously published at Bath through the agency of Henrietta Maria Bowdler