# Elizabeth Eiloart > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Elizabeth_Eiloart > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Elizabeth_Eiloart.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Eiloart > Source revision: 1344168278 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) English novelist Elizabeth Eiloart Born Elizabeth Darby Adams 1827 (1827) St. Pancras, London Died 22 February 1898(1898-02-22) (aged 70–71) Brighton, England Pen name Mrs. C. J. Eiloart Occupation Author and suffragist **Elizabeth Eiloart** (1827 – 22 February 1898)[1] was an English [novelist](/source/Novelist), who wrote mostly children's fiction under the name Mrs. C. J. Eiloart. She was also a [feminist](/source/Feminist) and [suffragist](/source/Suffragist). ## Life Eiloart was born **Elizabeth Darby Adams** in 1827[2] in [St. Pancras, London](/source/St._Pancras%2C_London),[3] the daughter of Samuel Adams. On 29 September 1849, she married Carl J. G. Eiloart at [St Pancras Old Church](/source/St_Pancras_Old_Church)[4] 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.[2] Ernest Eiloart wrote *The Laws Relating to Women* in 1878.[5] Around 1890, the couple retired to Dane Street in [St Leonards-on-Sea](/source/St_Leonards-on-Sea)[5] where they lived until Carl's death. Elizabeth died on 22 February 1898 in [Brighton](/source/Brighton).[1] ## Feminist activities In 1858, she persuaded [Marylebone](/source/Marylebone) Swimming Baths to be open for ladies each Wednesday. She was a shareholder in and writer for the *[English Woman's Journal](/source/English_Woman's_Journal)* from its foundation in 1858, and became its [editor](/source/Editor_in_chief) in 1864.[6] ## Published works Source:[5] - *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) ## Reception of works *Ernie Elton* still proved popular amongst school children twenty years after original publication.[7] ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Ancestry_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Ancestry_1-1) [Grassick Family Tree & Other Related Families](https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wdgrassick&id=I15024), Ancestry.com. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-VR_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-VR_2-1) [victorianresearch.org *Elizabeth Darby Eiloart*](https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=96) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-census_3-0)** ["'England and Wales Census, 1871,' index and images: Elizabeth D Eiloart in entry for Carl J G Eiloart, 1871"](https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VRN5-8YN). FamilySearch. Retrieved 15 February 2013. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-marriage_4-0)** ["Carl Julius Gozna Eiloart and Elizabeth Darby Adams"](https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NK5L-3XM). *England Marriages, 1538–1973, citing Old Church, Saint Pancras, London, England, FHL microfilm 598341, 598342, 598343, 598344, 598345, 598346, 598347, 598348*. FamilySearch. Retrieved 16 February 2013. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-allibone_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-allibone_5-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-allibone_5-2) Kirk, John Foster (1891). [*A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature*](https://archive.org/details/asupplementtoal00alligoog). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. pp. [545](https://archive.org/details/asupplementtoal00alligoog/page/n561). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["British Women's Emancipation since the Renaissance"](http://historyofwomen.org/biogs.html). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Jordan, John O.; Patten, Robert L. (2003). [*Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices*](https://books.google.com/books?id=k9sGKi1M-RMC&q=c+j+Eiloart&pg=PA198). Cambridge University Press. pp. 196–198. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780521893930](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521893930). Retrieved 9 July 2015. ## External links - [Google Books, list of available works](https://books.google.com/books?lr=&q=inauthor:%22elizabeth+eiloart) - [Open Library, similar list](https://openlibrary.org/a/OL2607253A/Elizabeth-Eiloart) - ["At the Circulating Library", a database of Victorian fiction](https://victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=96) - [Children's literature portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Children%27s_literature) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States People Trove Other Open Library Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Elizabeth Eiloart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Eiloart) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Eiloart?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.