Author: Allen, Elizabeth
Biography:
ALLEN, Elizabeth (1796-1849: Coates)
Born in Craftsbury VT, her parents having emigrated there from Brookfield MA when northern Vermont was still a wilderness. She was fond of music when young but became totally deaf at the age of fifteen. She contributed to the local newspaper using the pseudonym "Ada"; income from her book enabled her to tour the middle west in 1833. ([Elizabeth Allen,] Sketches of Green Mountain Life; with an Autobiography of the Author [1846]; Walter John Coates, A Bibliography of Vermont Poetry [Montpelier VT, 1942])
Other Names:
- Miss Elizabeth Allen
Books written (3):
Burlington [VT]: Edward Smith, 1832
London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, and L. B. Seeley and Sons, 1833
2nd edn. Lyons [NY]: printed by Wm. F. Ashley and Co., 1835