Eliza Philp
was not yet twenty-one when she married James Parsons
, a Plymouth turpentine distiller and government contractor for naval stores. (He called himself merchant on the marriage certificate.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Eliza Parsons. 30 Sept. 2016.
Morton, Karen. A Life Marketed as Fiction. An Analysis of the Works of Eliza Parsons. Valancourt Books, 2011.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Eliza Parsons
James Parsons
, EP
's husband, died of stroke shortly before this, the date of his funeral. He left her with their eight children to support.
Morton, Karen. A Life Marketed as Fiction. An Analysis of the Works of Eliza Parsons. Valancourt Books, 2011.
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Timeline
1741: James Parsons published A Mechanical Critical...
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1741
James Parsons
published A Mechanical Critical Inquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites, which he said was designed to dispell ignorance and superstition and to reinforce truth.
Costa, Palmira Fontes da. “The understanding of monsters at the Royal Society in the first half of the eighteenth century”. Endeavour, Vol.
