A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy
BENGER, ELIZABETH OGILVY,
Was born at Wells, in 1778, and had to struggle with many difficulties in early life. So few books could she procure, that she used to read the open pages of the new publications in the window of the only bookseller's shop in the little town in Wiltshire in which she lived, and return, day after day, in the hope of finding another page turned over. She, nevertheless, acquired a respectable portion of learning. On her removal to London, she obtained kind literary friends and patronage, and was generally esteemed for her virtues, manners, and talents. She died January the 9th., 1827. Besides a drama, two novels, and poems, she wrote "Memoirs of Mrs. Hamilton;" "Lobin and Klopstock;" and "Lives of Anne Boleyn; Mary, Queen of Scots; the Queen of Bohemia; and Henry the Fourth, of France."