In a poem written at the age of twenty-one Elizabeth Sophia mentions four little sisters and a little brother, aged from two and a half to eleven and a half. She was evidently closest, emotionally...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
EST
's brother Thomas Edlyne
included a poem in praise of The Victim of Fancy in their joint volume in 1797.
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia, and Sir Thomas Edwyne Tomlins. Tributes of Affection. Longman and Dilly, 1797.
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The Gentleman's Magazinecalled this novel, when it was published, a worthy successor...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
Tributes of Affection concludes with three ballads, some verse letters exchanged between EST
and her brother
in the personae of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Charlotte and Werter, and two fables by EST
(The Rat who had Retired from...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
EST
and her elder brother, Thomas Edlyne Tomson
, published Tributes of Affection: with The Slave; and other poems. They concealed their identities, publishing as a Lady, and her Brother.