Eliza Roberts (poet)
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Eliza Roberts | |
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| Occupation | poet; translator |
| Language | English |
| Period | Romantic era |
| Years active | 1780-1788 |
| Notable work | Translator of Rousseau |
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Eliza Roberts (fl. 1780–1788) was a British Romantic-era poet and translator of Rousseau.
Few details are known of her life. She was possibly the same Eliza Roberts, said to be "literary",[1] who was mother to travel writer and poet Emma Roberts.[2]
As "Miss Roberts", she published two poems, "Effusions of melancholy" and "On a supposed slight from a friend" in the Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or Beauties of British Poetry (1781-1782).[3][4] In 1788 she published The Beauties of Rousseau. Selected by a Lady, translations of a series of excerpts from various works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.[5]
"Effusions of melancholy" and "On a supposed slight from a friend" were anthologized in the first known anthology of writing by women in English, Poems by Eminent Ladies (2nd edition, 1785, pp. 125–127).
