Author: Reeve, Sophia
Biography:
REEVE, Sophia, formerly BONHOTE, formerly JEAFFRESON, later GLOVER (1777-1847: findmypast.co.uk)
She was baptised as Susan Bonhote on 18 Nov. 1777 at Bungay, Norfolk, the daughter of Daniel Bonhote, an attorney, and his wife Elizabeth (Mapes) Bonhote (q.v.), a poet and novelist; they had married in 1772. She married first Lt. Samuel Jeaffreson, RN, at St. Mary Bungay, on 7 Dec. 1802. He died just over a year later. She then married Richard Reeve, MD, a surgeon in the West Suffolk Regiment, on 5 Feb. 1807, again at Bungay. He died in Nov. 1832. She married the Rev. George Glover, archdeacon of Sudbury, on 4 Apr. 1837 at South Repps. She died at the Rectory, Southrepps, on 26 July 1847 and was buried on 2 Aug. There does not appear to have been any issue from the three marriages. Her first novel, The Mysterious Wanderer (1807) is her best-known work; it was followed by Stanmore (1824) and Cuthbert (1828). (Her mother is of more importance in the history of the novel.) Her three volumes of poetry, almost exclusively occasional, are less substantial. (findmypast.co.uk 16 Dec. 2020; Copsey 1, 65, 402; EN 1, 2; Bath Chronicle 23 Dec.1802; Bury and Norwich Post 11 Feb. 1807, 14 Nov. 1832; Norfolk Chronicle 17 Dec. 1803, 15 Apr. 1837, 31 Jul. 1847) AA
Other Names:
- Mrs. Reeve