A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Smith, Elizabeth

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4121139A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Smith, Elizabeth

SMITH, ELIZABETH,

Was born, in 1766, at the family seat of Burnhall, in the county of Durham. She understood mathematics, drawing, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, and French. Her "Fragments," "Translation of Job," and "Translation of the Life of Klopstock," have been published. She also wrote poetry. She died in 1806, aged thirty years.