Author: Wolferstan, Elizabeth P.
Biography:
WOLFERSTAN, Elizabeth Pipe, formerly JERVIS (1763-1845: ancestry.co.uk)
She was baptised on 4 Oct. 1763 at Christchurch, Spitalfields, the daughter of Philip Jervis (1737-1797) and his wife Mary Dove (1740-1796). Her father was a silk-mill owner with an estate at Netherseale, Leicestershire. Her baptism records her parents’ residence in Princes Street, in the Huguenot silk-weaving area of London. She published anonymously a novel, Agatha (1796), which has recently been attributed and edited. In the same year she became the second wife of Samuel Pipe Wolferstan (1751-1820), an antiquary and owner of Statfold Hall, Tamworth, Staffordshire. After his death in 1820 she began to publish poetry: The Enchanted Flute (1822), Eugenia (1824), and Fairy Tales (1829) which included translations from La Fontaine and Ovid. She also published separately a dual-language edition of her translation of a story from Ovid, The Fable of Phaeton (1828). Later in life she wrote Fructus Experientiae; or, Conversations on Early Education (1835) and Old Stories Versified (1842). She died on 14 March 1845, aged 81, at Statfold. (ancestry.co.uk 24 Aug. 2020; findmypast.co.uk 24 Aug. 2020; Orlando; EN1 1796: 2) AA
Other Names:
- E. P. Wolferstan
- Elizabeth Wolferstan