Lifespan: 1827-1898
Nationality: English
Types of Work: Children's fiction, novels
Other Names: Mrs. C.J. Eiloart
Bio:
(from Wikipedia)
Elizabeth Eiloart was an English novelist, who wrote mostly children's fiction under the name Mrs. C. J. Eiloart. She was also a feminist and suffragist. born Elizabeth Darby Adams in 1827 in St. Pancras, London, the daughter of Samuel Adams. On 29 September 1849, she married Carl J. G. Eiloart at St Pancras Old Church where they made their home. They had a daughter and a son, Ernest Eiloart, who wrote The Laws Relating to Women in 1878. Around 1890, the couple retired to Dane Street in St. Leonard's, East Sussex where they lived until Carl's death. Elizabeth died on 22 February 1898 in Brighton.
In 1858, she persuaded Marylebone Swimming Baths to be open for ladies each Wednesday. She was a shareholder in and writer for the English Woman's Journal from its foundation in 1858, and became its editor in 1864.
Novels:
Meg (1868)
St. Bede's (1870)
Just a Woman (1871)
The Young Squire: or, Peter and His Friends (1872)
Woman's Wrong (1872)
Lady Moretoun's Daughter (1873)
Love That Lived: a Novel (1874)
Some of Our Girls (1875, new ed. 1884)
Kate Randal's Bargain: a Novel (1875)
Jabez Ebsleigh, M.P.: a Novel (1876)
His Second Wife: a Novel (1877)
How He Won Her (1879, new ed. 1883)
The Dean's Wife (1880, new ed. 1883)
My Lady Clare (1882)
Was it Worth the Cost?: a Novel (1883)
Out of Her Sphere (Bentley, 1872)