A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Ryves, Eliza
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RYVES, ELIZA,
An Irish lady, known for her literary abilities. Having lost her property by a lawsuit, she subsisted by the labours of her pen. She wrote the "Hermit of Snowden," a novel; besides some translations from the French, and frequent contributions to the annual registers. She died in London, in 1797,