At Bath (where her mother had taken her in the wake of her first love-affair) Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real
met a baronet's son, William Gooch
, who in his turn proposed eloping with her.
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. The Life of Mrs Gooch. Printed for the authoress and sold by C. and G. Kearsley, 1792, 3 vols.
1: 43, 44, 46, 55
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real
, aged seventeen, married at St George's, Hanover Square, London, William Gooch
, younger son of a baronet, whom she had known for five weeks and who had attempted to marry...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
ESG
's husband
having decreed her banishment to a convent in France, she set off in the snow on Christmas Eve.
She says 1778, which is probably a year too late. A manuscript note...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Her full title was Appeal to the Public, on the Conduct of Mrs. Gooch, the wife of William Gooch
, written by herself. She explains in a note that after she had completed her...