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Bibliographical and Contextual Apparatus

 

Author: Moody, Elizabeth (dates uncertain; d. 1814)

Title: Poetic Trifles.

Date: 1798

 

Biographical Information

Elizabeth Moody was born in April of 1737 (Waters). Elizabeth Moody’s maiden name was Elizabeth Greenley. After she married Christopher Lake Moody, they lived at Turnham Green Terrace. She wrote regularly for Monthly Magazine, but she also had poems published in the General Evening Post and Gentleman’s Magazine. She published her collection, Poetic Trifles, in London in 1798. She died in 1814 on December 10. (British Women Poets of the Romantic Era 458-459). Elizabeth Moody was fluent in English, French, and Italian (Waters).

SOURCES

Feldman, Paula, ed. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Johns Hopkins UP, 1996.
Waters, Mary. "Elizabeth Moody". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 January 2002
[https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3170, accessed 24 April 2018.]

Prepared by Lindsey Yank, University of Nebraska, Spring 2018
© Lindsey Yank, 2018