Author: Cooper, Mrs.
Biography:
COOPER, Mrs. (fl 1770)
Although this author’s address in Wapping, London, is given on the title page of her book, it has been impossible to identify her. She is not the Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper who published a play, The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine (1735), and The Muses Library (1737). That Mrs. Cooper lived in the west end of London, was widowed in 1729, and may have died in 1761. Mrs. Cooper of Wapping had a husband, referred to as “Nauticus” in her poem. Likely she did publish at least one other work: Address to the People of Wapping refers to a “Madame D***n” who, a footnote informs us, lived in Sampsons Gardens and advised a prosecution against the author for a former publication. Nothing else is known and “Mrs. Cooper” may have been a pseudonym. (ODNB [for Elizabeth Cooper] 8 Feb. 2024)