Though she says nothing about friendships in her life, EW
was a correspondent of another remarkable diarist and letter-writer, Elizabeth Parker
of Alkincoats in Lancashire. Elizabeth belonged to an older generation and was very much...
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July 1765: Elizabeth Parker, an independent widow of...
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July 1765
Elizabeth Parker
, an independent widow of Alkincoats in Lancashire and an energetic diarist, eloped to Gretna Green with John Shackleton
, a much younger merchant: this proved a very bad choice.
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, 1998.
