User:Rich Farmbrough/DNB/E/l/Elizabeth Hardy

Elizabeth Hardy|1794|1854| Elizabeth Hardy (born 1794 died 1854), novelist, born in Ireland in 1794, was a zealous protestant. She wrote 'Michael Cassidy, or the Cottage Gardener', 1845; 'Owen Glendower, or the Prince in Wales', 2 vols., 1849; 'The Confessor, a Jesuit Tale of the Times', 1854, and possibly some other works. All were published anonymously. Mrs. Hardy died on 9 May 1854, in the Queen's Bench Prison, where she had been imprisoned 'for about eighteen months for a small debt'. ^{[DNB 1][DNB 2][DNB 3][1]}

References

1. [[Template:Cite DNB|vb=yes|author=Template:DNB FW-t|title=Hardy, Elizabeth (DNB00)|work=Dictionary of National Biography|volume=24|pages=0|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hardy,_Elizabeth_(DNB00)]]

DNB references

These references are found in the DNB article referred to above.

1. Gentlemen's Magazine 1854, i. 670
2. Catalogue of Advocates' Library
3. Halkett and Laing's Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Lit.

External links

Hardy, Elizabeth (DNB00)|Hardy, Elizabeth

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