Elizabeth Fenton

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Standard Name: Fenton, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Sinclair Knox
Nickname: Bessie
Married Name: Elizabeth Sinclair Campbell
Married Name: Elizabeth Sinclair Fenton
Indexed Name: Mrs Bessie Knox
EF is known for her single, posthumously published travel book, selected from the journals she kept during her voyages from the British Isles to India and from there to Mauritius and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), between 1826 and 1830. This introspective and poetic work is a compelling record of personal hardships and of an Irishwoman's response to nineteenth-century India and Tasmania.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Grace O'Brien
Her father, William Smith O'Brien , second son of Sir Edward O'Brien , baronet, was responsible for founding the Irish Confederation in 1847, seceding from the Repeal Association that he had joined in 1843.
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Texts

Fenton, Elizabeth. Mrs. Fenton’s Tasmanian Journal, 1829-1830. Sullivan’s Cove, 1986.
Lawrence, Sir Henry, and Elizabeth Fenton. “Preface”. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton, edited by Sir Henry Lawrence and Sir Henry Lawrence, Edward Arnold, 1901.
Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold, 1901.
Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.