Author: Bonhote, Elizabeth
Biography:
BONHOTE, Elizabeth formerly Mapes (1744-1818: findmypast.co.uk)
pseudonym A Lady
Novelist and poet. She was born at Bungay, Suffolk, to James Mapes, a baker and grocer, and Elizabeth (Galliard) Mapes and baptised on 11 Apr. 1744. In Oct. 1772 she married Daniel Bonhote (b 1750), a solicitor; they had at least two children, Eliza and Susan, who survived their mother. She published the two first volumes of her Rambles of Mr. Frankly in 1772 and became a very successful novelist. Initially her books were published anonymously but, from 1789 with Darnley Vale, they were issued under her name and she became a best-selling author for William Lane’s “Minerva Press.” Her non-fiction book of advice, The Parental Monitor, was published in 1788. Bonhote died at Bungay, and her will, proved on 24 July 1818, contributed financially to the town. (RPW; ODNB 4 May 2018; ancestry.co.uk 24 Dec. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 24 Dec. 2024) SR