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Last Name Brightwen
Given Name Eliza Elder °
alt. Names E. B. ; Elizabeth / Brightwen the Elder ; not to mixed up with Eliza Brightwen Gosse (1813-1900) ;
Marriage
Children
Year born 1830 in Banff, Scotland
Year died 1906
Place of death
Father's occupation jeweller George Elder & wife
Relatives Margaret Brightwen (1800 c. - 1830 after) (mother) ; 5 siblings ;
Education
Country of Activity Australia
Worked for W. H. Chesson (ed.): Wild Nature won by Kindness (1892) & More About Wild Nature (1892) ; Last Hours with Nature (1908) ;
Patronage
Collaborators wood engraver ->Francis Carruthers Gould ; ->Theobald Carreras ; publisher Fisher Unwin ;
Techniques zoological pencil drawing, pen-and-ink, and watercolour ;
Sample(s) www.gutenberg.org/files/21111/21111-h/21111-h.htm ;
Archival sources www.poemhunter.com/edmund-william-gosse/biography/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~thegrove/brightweny.html ;
Published sources Barbara T. Gates: Those who drew, in A. B. Shteir & B. Lightman (eds.): Figuring it out, 2006: 198-207 ; Edmund Gosse: E. B.. Life & Thoughts of a Naturalist (1909) ;
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