Eliza Lanesford Cushing

Standard Name: Cushing, Eliza Lanesford
Used Form: Elizabeth Lanesford

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Hannah Webster Foster
HWF 's second daughter and fifth child, Elizabeth or Eliza Lanesford , was born in 1794. In 1820 she and her next sister, Harriet, jointly published at AndoverThe Summer School; or, Village Sketches...
Publishing Hannah Webster Foster
The full title was The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton; a Novel; founded on fact. It proved to be a best-seller, having eighteen more editions up to 1874. One published at Boston...
Textual Production Mary Ann Shadd Cary
According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, MASC was the first female editor in Canada, although in so saying they are neglecting earlier magazine editors,
Eliza Lanesford Cushing (daughter of the US novelist...

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1824: Two daughters of American novelist Hannah...

Writing climate item

1824

Two daughters of American novelist Hannah Webster Foster published historical novels: Eliza Lanesford Cushing issued Saratoga; A Tale of the Revolution and Harriet Vaughan Cheney issued A Peep at the Pilgrims.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

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