Charlotte Countess Fitzwilliam

SP (as S. Pearson) published by subscription the earlier of her two poetry collections: Poems. She dedicated it, by permission, to the Countess Fitzwilliam .

Barbara Hoole (later BH ) published her Poems, with about 1,620 subscribers, and a dedication to Countess Fitzwilliam .

There was another edition or issue at York. This second collection of EKM 's poems, divided into Sonnets, Elegies, Odes, and Ballads, reprints pieces both from her earlier collection and from her novel What...

SP was a protégée (rather than a servant) of Charlotte, Countess Fitzwilliam (c. 1750-13 May 1822), to whom she dedicated her first publication. Lady Fitzwilliam was also a patron to Barbara Hofland and...

Subscribers included members of the Fitzwilliam family (that of Pearson's patron ), plus several from the wider literary world: Elizabeth Carter , her nephew Montagu Pennington , and the obscure novelist Mrs Carver , who...

SP settled in a cottage in the village of Wentworth in Yorkshire (a village which was also home to the estate and immense mansion Wentworth Woodhouse). The cottage was provided for her by her...

In the same year that she provided the cottage, Lady Fitzwilliam bestowed on SP an annuity of twenty-five pounds.

SP made her will on 19 November 1832. James Montgomery was one of the executors. She left bequests to Ebenezer and Mary Rhodes and their seven children (who by this date were probably in need)...