Elizabeth Eiloart

{{short description|English novelist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Use British English|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Elizabeth Eiloart | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = Mrs. C. J. Eiloart | birth_name = Elizabeth Darby Adams | birth_date = 1827 | birth_place = St. Pancras, London | death_date = 22 February 1898 | death_place = Brighton, England | resting_place = | occupation = Author and suffragist }} '''Elizabeth Eiloart''' (1827 – 22 February 1898)<ref name=Ancestry>[http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wdgrassick&id=I15024 Grassick Family Tree & Other Related Families], Ancestry.com.</ref> was an English [[novelist]], who wrote mostly children's fiction under the name Mrs. C. J. Eiloart. She was also a [[feminist]] and [[suffragist]].

==Life== Eiloart was born '''Elizabeth Darby Adams''' in 1827<ref name="VR">[https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=96 victorianresearch.org ''Elizabeth Darby Eiloart'']</ref> in [[St. Pancras, London]],<ref name=census>{{cite web|title='England and Wales Census, 1871,' index and images: Elizabeth D Eiloart in entry for Carl J G Eiloart, 1871.|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VRN5-8YN|publisher=FamilySearch|access-date=15 February 2013}}</ref> the daughter of Samuel Adams. On 29 September 1849, she married Carl J. G. Eiloart at [[St Pancras Old Church]]<ref name=marriage>{{cite web|title=Carl Julius Gozna Eiloart and Elizabeth Darby Adams|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NK5L-3XM|work=England Marriages, 1538–1973, citing Old Church, Saint Pancras, London, England, FHL microfilm 598341, 598342, 598343, 598344, 598345, 598346, 598347, 598348|publisher=FamilySearch|access-date=16 February 2013}}</ref> where they made their home. They had twelve children, five of whom died as children. The survivors were Edith, Ernest, Bernard, Clarence, Arnold, and Blanche.<ref name="VR" /> Ernest Eiloart wrote ''The Laws Relating to Women'' in 1878.<ref name=allibone>{{cite book|last=Kirk|first=John Foster|title=A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/asupplementtoal00alligoog|year=1891|publisher=J. B. Lippincott & Co.|location=Philadelphia|pages=[https://archive.org/details/asupplementtoal00alligoog/page/n561 545]}}</ref> Around 1890, the couple retired to Dane Street in [[St Leonards-on-Sea]]<ref name=allibone /> where they lived until Carl's death. Elizabeth died on 22 February 1898 in [[Brighton]].<ref name=Ancestry />

==Feminist activities== In 1858, she persuaded [[Marylebone]] Swimming Baths to be open for ladies each Wednesday. She was a shareholder in and writer for the ''[[English Woman's Journal]]'' from its foundation in 1858, and became its [[editor in chief|editor]] in 1864.<ref>{{cite web |title=British Women's Emancipation since the Renaissance |url=http://historyofwomen.org/biogs.html }}</ref>

==Published works == Source:<ref name=allibone /> {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''Ernie Elton, the Lazy Boy'' (1865, new ed. 1876) * ''Ernie Elton at School: and What Came of His Going There'' (1866) * ''Ernie Elton at Home and at School'' (1866) * ''Johnny Jordan and His Dog'' (1866) * ''Archie Blake: a Sea-side Story'' (1867, new ed. 1878) * ''The Boys of Beechwood'' Illustrated (1867) * ''The Curate's Discipline'' (1867) * ''Tom Dunstone's Troubles, and How He Got Over Them'' (1869) * ''From Thistles--Grapes?'' (1870) * ''Cris Fairlie's Boyhood: a Tale'' (1870) * ''St. Bede's'' (1870) * ''Just a Woman'' (1871) * ''The Young Squire: or, Peter and His Friends'' (1872) * ''Woman's Wrong'' (1872) * ''Lady Moretoun's Daughter'' (1873) * ''A Boy With an Idea'' Illustrated (1873, new ed. 1881) * ''Love That Lived: a Novel'' (1874) * ''Some of Our Girls'' (1875, new ed. 1884) * ''Kate Randal's Bargain: a Novel'' (1875) * ''Jabez Ebsleigh, M.P.: a Novel'' (1876) * ''His Second Wife: a Novel'' (1877) * ''How He Won Her'' (1879, new ed. 1883) * ''The Dean's Wife'' (1880, new ed. 1883) * ''My Lady Clare'' (1882) * ''Was it Worth the Cost?: a Novel'' (1883) * ''Out of Her Sphere'' (Bentley, 1872) {{div col end}}

==Reception of works== ''Ernie Elton'' still proved popular amongst school children twenty years after original publication.<ref>{{cite book |title=Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices |last1=Jordan |first1=John O. |last2=Patten |first2=Robert L. |year=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521893930 |pages=196–198 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k9sGKi1M-RMC&q=c+j+Eiloart&pg=PA198 |access-date=9 July 2015}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://books.google.com/books?lr=&q=inauthor:%22elizabeth+eiloart Google Books, list of available works] * [https://openlibrary.org/a/OL2607253A/Elizabeth-Eiloart Open Library, similar list] * [https://victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=96 "At the Circulating Library", a database of Victorian fiction]

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