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Eliza Cook
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or ELIZA COOK (1818-1889), English author, was born on the 2 4 th of December 1818, in Southwark, being the daughter of a local tradesman. She was self-taught, and began when a girl to write poetry for the Weekly Dispatch and New Monthly. In 1838 she published Melaia and other Poems, and from 1849 to 1854 conducted a paper for family reading called Eliza Cook's Journal. She also published Jottings from my Journal (1860), and New Echoes (1864); and in 1863 she was given a civil list pension of £ioo a year. As the author of a single poem, "The Old Armchair," Eliza Cook's name was for a generation after 1838 a household word both in England and in America, her kindly domestic sentiment making her a great favourite with the working-class and middle-class public. She died at Wimbledon on the 23rd of September 1889.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Eliza Cook'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/e/eliza-cook.html. 1910.
