Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

ELIZA COOK (1818–1889)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 71 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

ELIZA See also:

COOK (1818–1889)  , See also:English author, was See also:born on the 24th of See also:December 1818, in See also:Southwark, being the daughter of a See also:local tradesman . She was self-taught, and began when a girl to write See also:poetry for the Weekly See also:Dispatch and New Monthly . In 1838 she published Melaia and other Poems, and from 1849 to 1854 conducted a See also:paper for See also:family See also:reading called Eliza See also:Cook's See also:Journal . She also published Jottings from my Journal (186o), and New Echoes (1864); and in 1863 she was given a See also:civil See also:list See also:pension of boo a See also:year . As the author of a single poem, "The Old Armchair," Eliza Cook's name was for a See also:generation after 1838 a See also:household word both in See also:England and in See also:America, her kindly domestic sentiment making her a See also:great favourite with the working-class and See also:middle-class public . She died at See also:Wimbledon on the 23rd of See also:September 1889 .

End of Article: ELIZA COOK (1818–1889)
[back]
EDWARD DUTTON COOK (1829–1883)
[next]
JAMES COOK (1728-1779)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.