Author: Tuck, Elizabeth
Biography:
TUCK, Elizabeth (1790-1861: ancestry.co.uk)
She was probably born 1790 at Frome, Somerset, the daughter of John Tuck (1751-1818), bookbinder and bookseller, and his wife Mary Lane (1751-1825). Her brother Stephen Tuck (1792-1865) was a printer and bookseller with premises on Church Hill. He wrote and printed Wesleyan Methodism in Frome, Somersetshire (1837). In the 1841 Census she was recorded as a bookseller at Whittox Lane, Frome. In 1851, she was listed again as a bookseller, living at Catherine Hill. She was a canvasser and fund-raiser for the Anti-Corn Law League. No copy of her first publication The Juvenile Poetical Moralist (1821) has survived. She then published Vallis Vale (1823) with her brother as one of the printers. A volume of Frome verse, The Selwood Wreath (1841), ed. Charles Bayly, also contained many of her poems. She died 12 Oct. 1861, aged 71, at New Buildings, Frome, and was buried at Vallis Road Cemetery. (ancestry.co.uk 14 Sept. 2020; findmypast.co.uk 14 Sept. 2020; Salisbury and Winchester Journal 9 Feb. 1818, 18 Apr. 1825; Frome Times 16 Oct. 1861, 1 Nov. 1865) AA