Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
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Who is Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins?
Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins, was born in 1763. In 1797 her brother, later Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, published ‘Tributes of Affection by a Lady and her Brother’, a collection of short poems, most of them by her. Besides contributing several pieces to various periodical publications, she was the author of several novels, of which the most popular was ‘The Victim of Fancy,’ an imitation of Goethe's ‘Werther.’ Others were ‘The Baroness d'Alunton,’ and ‘Rosalind de Tracy,’ 1798, 12mo. She also translated the ‘History of Napoleon Bonaparte’ from one of the works of Louis Pierre Anquetil. Miss Tomlins died at The Firs, Cheltenham, on 8 August 1828.
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