Elizabeth Thomas

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Standard Name: Thomas, Elizabeth,, b. 1771
Birth Name: Elizabeth Wolferstan
Married Name: Elizabeth Thomas
Pseudonym: Martha Homely
Pseudonym: Mrs Bridget Bluemantle
Pseudonym: An Old Wife of Twenty Years
Pseudonym: The Author of Purity of Heart
Under two successive pseudonyms, Elizabeth Thomas , was both novelist and poet. Late in life she explained that during her youth, in the days of the great Romantics, publishing poetry took more confidence than she possessed, though she smuggled some of it into her novels as chapter-headings.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Fictionalization Lady Caroline Lamb
From the date of Byron's death, LCL lived with a constant succession of revelations in celebrity memoirs, which often contained something hurtful to herself. Thomas Medwin , whom she respected as a truth-teller, printed an...
names Lady Caroline Lamb
  • BirthName: Caroline Ponsonby
  • Nicknames: Car Ponsonby; Caro William; Lady Calantha Limb
    This name was applied to her in fiction by Elizabeth Thomas .

  • Married: Lamb
  • Styled: Lady
    She became Lady Caroline as a small child...
Textual Features Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
The tales are The Bandit of Florence, and the Fugitive Nun and Imbecility of Mind, which is addressed to the author of Purity of Heart (that is, Elizabeth Thomas —who in this novel of...
Textual Production Lady Caroline Lamb
An odd spin-off from LCL 's desire to make herself into a professional writer was her project for a pocket diary or almanac. These ephemeral publications were repositories of useful information of many kinds as...

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Texts

Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 1771. Claudine. Minerva Press, 1817, 3 vols.
Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 1771. Maids As They Are Not, and Wives As They Are. W. Earle, Jr., 1803, 4 vols.
Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 1771. Monte Video. Minerva Press, 1809, 4 vols.
Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 1771. Mortimer Hall. Minerva Press, 1811, 4 vols.
Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 1771. Purity of Heart. Simpkin and Marshall, 1816.
Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 1771. The Baron of Falconberg. Minerva Press, 1815, 3 vols.
Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 1771. The Confession. Simpkin and Marshall, 1818.
Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 1771. The Convert. 1840.
Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 1771. The Georgian. C. A. Bartlett, 1847.
Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 1771. The Husband and Wife. Minerva Press, 1808, 3 vols.
Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 1771. The Prison-House. Minerva Press, 1814, 4 vols.
Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 1771. The Three Old Maids of the House of Penruddock. Minerva Press, 1806, 3 vols.
Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 1771. The Vindictive Spirit. Minerva Press, 1812, 4 vols.