Author: Cutts, Elizabeth
Biography:
CUTTS, Elizabeth (1704-82: ancestry.co.uk)
Her book supplies two clues to the author’s likely identity: the lengthy subscription list includes the name of “Mord.[ecai] Cutts, Esq. who took 8 copies, and the book was published in London but also in Doncaster, Yorkshire. Mordecai Cutts matriculated at University College, Oxford, on 30 May 1720 when he was nineteen; he later became an examiner in the Patent Office in the City of London. He died in 1787 and his will provides for the disposition of property he had inherited from his deceased sister Elizabeth Cutts. Elizabeth and Mordecai were the children of Benjamin Cutts of Thorne, Yorkshire, and his wife Jane. Benjamin was from a Quaker family but he must have converted to the Church of England. Elizabeth was baptised in Thorne on 19 Oct. 1704 and she died there on 29 July 1782. She was buried on 1 Aug. 1782 in the churchyard of St. Nicholas church in Thorne where both her father and, later, her brother were interred. This Elizabeth Cutts would have been 71 when Almeria was published but no other likely candidate for the author has been found. (ancestry.co.uk 31 Jan. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 31 Jan. 2024)
Other Names:
- Mrs. Cutts