Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton Explained

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Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton (1795 – 20 September 1855) was a British poet, playwright, and author.

Life

Eliza Bland Smith was born in 1795 in Whitehaven, England, the daughter of a Lieutenant Colonel Smith. In 1809, she married Lt. Col. Esmé Stewart Erskine, son of Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine. He lost an arm at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and died in 1817. In Mumbai on 3 November 1819, she married James Norton, then in the naval service of the East India Company.[1] He later joined the Imperial Brazilian Navy and during the Cisplatine War, he lost an arm in battle in 1828.[2] He died in 1835.

Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton died on 20 September 1855 in Baden-Baden at the home of her son-in-law, diplomat Frederic Douglas-Hamilton.[3]

Writing

She published two books of poetry, Isabel (1814) and Alcon Malanzore (1815). The latter was a long narrative poem about the doomed interracial love between a Christian woman, Rosaline, and the titular Moorish commander. She also published a play, The Martyr (1848), and a collection of stories, The Gossip (1852). She contributed to periodicals including The Metropolitan and Bentley's Miscellaney.[4]

Her works are sometimes confused with those of the more famous author Caroline Norton; the latter quipped that "Mrs. Erskine Norton has ingeniously taken to playing at being me to all the publishers."[5] The two women engaged in a debate about this confusion and the appropriate use of British naming conventions in letters to The Times.[6]

Children

Eliza and Esmé Stewart Erskine had three children:

Eliza and James Norton had six children:

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. June 1820 . Marriages . Edinburgh Magazine . 7 . 342.
  2. Book: Rio Branco, José Maria da Silva Paranhos Júnior, Barão do . Obras do Barão do Rio Branco. . Brasília . 2012 . 978-85-7631-352-6 . 842885255 . pt . Norton dirigiu-se em um escaler para bordo deste último navio, e aí uma bala partiu-lhe o braço direito, que no mesmo dia teve de ser amputado..
  3. News: November 1855 . Deaths . 556 . Gentleman's Magazine .
  4. Vrooman . H. W. . Landis . Martha . Dickens . Charles . 1850–1859 . Household words . 387 . 0950-9801.
  5. Book: Perkins, Jane Gray . The Life of the Honourable Mrs. Norton . 1909 . H. Holt . 176 . en.
  6. Book: The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature . 1853 . en.
  7. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
  8. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999.
  9. Book: Rio Branco, José Maria da Silva Paranhos Júnior, Barão do . Obras do Barão do Rio Branco. . 2012 . 978-85-7631-352-6 . VII . Brasília . 842885255.
  10. Book: Johnson, C. R. . Provincial poetry 1789-1839 : British verse printed in the provinces : the Romantic background . 1992 . Otley : Printed by Smith Settle for the Jed Press, London . Internet Archive . 978-0-9520501-0-0.
  11. Book: Saglia, Diego . Poetic Castles in Spain: British Romanticism and Figurations of Iberia . 28 December 2021 . BRILL . 978-90-04-48673-7 . 163 . en.
  12. Book: Davis, Gwenn . Drama by women to 1900 : a bibliography of American and British writers . 1992 . Toronto : University of Toronto Press . Internet Archive . 978-0-8020-2797-9.
  13. Web site: Author: Eliza Bland Norton . 5 January 2023 . At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901.

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