Eliza Fenwick (
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Maiden name
Jaco
Short biography
An author of fiction and children’s literature. Fenwick was born Eliza Jaco in Penlynt, Cornwall.
Full biography
In the 1780s, she married John Fenwick, a writer, who became an alcoholic. She authored a novel in 1795. She left him in 1807, working as a governness in Ireland before moving with her children to Barbados in 1814, where she and her daughter ran a secondary school. Throughout her life, Fenwick corresponded with Charlotte Turner Smith, Mary and Charles Lamb, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Hays.
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Date of birth
01 February 1767
Place of birth
Pelynt, Cornwall
Date of death
08 December 1840
Place of death
Providence, Rhode Island
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