Elizabeth ellet biography

Elizabeth Ellet recorded the lives of the women of the American Revolution — and meddled in the life of Edgar Allan Poe. She was the first to treat women as fit subjects for history, and one of the first women to claim a place as a historian. In she began writing about the women who influenced the course of the American Revolution, delving into their personal letters and diaries.

She also delved into the personal affairs of Poe, her contemporary. By doing so she created a scandal that went down in history as stigmatizing Poe as a madman and a drunk. She was born Oct. Her father, Dr. William Nixon Lummis, had studied under Benjamin Rush. Elizabeth had a good education and published her first work at age 16, a translation from Italian of the poem Euphemia from Messina.

She then published a book of poems based on the history of Venice, which made it to the New York City stage. As a teenager she married William Ellet, a prominent chemist. Achievements Add photo. Membership Add photo. Awards Add photo. Other Photos Add photo. Connections Add photo. Domestic History of the American Revolution. Inventory Location: Row D.

Poems, Translated and Original. Jim Elliot. Addison Leitch. Biography [ edit ]. Books [ edit ]. Portrayals of Elisabeth Elliot [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Christianity Today. Retrieved June 15, The New York Times. Retrieved June 4, Elisabeth Elliot. Archived from the original on September 26, Retrieved September 1, Through Gates of Splendor.

United States of America: Tyndale House. ISBN Bible Researcher. Ellet became involved with the divorce case between Rufus Griswold and his second wife, Charlotte Myers, in Ellet and Ann S. Stephens wrote to Myers telling her not to allow the divorce, as well as to Harriet McCrillis, who intended to marry Griswold after the divorce, to end her relationship with him.

Neither Griswold nor Myers attended and the appeal was dismissed.

Elizabeth ellet biography

She continued to write, and, although they had no children, she promoted charities for impoverished women and children by speaking in public to raise funds. An Episcopalian most of her life, she converted to Catholicism in her later years. Ellet was the first historian to write about the relationship of women to the American Revolution.

She felt that women shaped history by their influence, which was done through "sentiment" and "feeling". This was so hard to define that she stated "History can do it no Justice". Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikisource Wikidata item.

American writer, poet, translator. Sodus Point, New York , U. New York City , U. Early life [ edit ]. Career [ edit ]. Scandal [ edit ]. The Women of the American Revolution [ edit ]. Further work [ edit ]. Later years [ edit ]. Legacy [ edit ]. List of works [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Elizabeth F. Archived from the original on January 2, Retrieved May 1, Diamant, Lincoln ed.

Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence. ISBN Archived from the original on March 18,