Author: Emmerson, Eliza
Biography:
EMMERSON, Eliza Louisa (1782-1854: Trehane)
She was born on 25 Mar. 1782 and baptised on 21 Apr. at All Saints, West Ham (then Essex), the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Woodward) Emmerson, who had married in the same church on 22 Jan. 1778. Her father was a successful grocer/butcher with premises in Claverton Street, Bath. She married Thomas Emmerson, the son of a London cheesemonger, on 13 June 1802 at St. Sepulchre, Holborn, with her father’s consent. Her husband took over the business and premises at 377 Oxford Street after the death of his father in 1804 but later became a picture-dealer. From 1820 to 1838 she was an admirer, patron, and correspondent of John Clare (q.v.) and wrote several poems to and about him. She was also a long-term friend and admirer of Derwent Coleridge. She died from bronchitis on 11 Mar. 1854 at her home, 20 Stratford Place, Marylebone, and was buried a week later at Kensal Green. Her husband died on 10 Oct. 1854. (Emma Trehane, The Epistolary Poetics of John Clare and Eliza Louisa Emmerson, PhD thesis Nottingham Trent University 2011; ancestry.co.uk 9 Apr. 2021; Morning Post 14 Mar. and 14 Oct. 1854; Kensal Green Cemetery, 11396sq, row 118) AA
Other Names:
- Mrs. Emmerson