On her thirty-third birthday Elizabeth Jervis
married the forty-six-year-old Samuel Pipe Wolferstan
, land-owner, of Statfold in Staffordshire; he had been a widower for ten years.
The Gentleman's Magazine report of the marriage says...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
The author's future husband, Samuel Pipe Wolferstan
, supposed her to suffer from lack of brains even after he learned she had written a novel. He bought four fine-paper copies, but he had strong reservations...