Elizabeth Teft

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Standard Name: Teft, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Teft
Pseudonym: Orinthia
ET was a poet of the earlier eighteenth century whose work suggests considerable independence of mind. Many of her poems are social or occasional; some are political.

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Author summary Fidelia
This symbolic name indicating faithfulness (which was also adopted for themselves by Mary Astell, Jane Barker, and the American writers Sarah Gill, Hannah Griffitts and Sukey Vickery, as well as for...

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Teft, Elizabeth. Orinthia’s Miscellanies. 1747.