Elizabeth F. Ellet
Historian, Author
1818 – 1877
Who was Elizabeth F. Ellet?
Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet was an American writer, historian and poet. She was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to the American Revolutionary War.
Born Elizabeth Fries Lummis, in New York, she published her first book, Poems, Translated and Original, in 1835. She married the chemist William Henry Ellet and the couple moved to South Carolina. She had published several books and contributed to multiple journals. In 1845 she moved back to New York and took her place in the literary scene there. She was involved with a public scandal involving Edgar Allan Poe and Frances Sargent Osgood and, later, another involving Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Ellet's most important work, The Women of the American Revolution, was published in 1845. The three volume book profiled the lives of patriotic women in the early history of the United States. She continued writing until her death in 1877.
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- Born
- Oct 18, 1818
Sodus Point - Also known as
- Elizabeth Ellet
- Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet
- Elizabeth Fries Lummis
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 3, 1877
New York City - Resting place
- Green-Wood Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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