Bonhote, Elizabeth (1744–1818)

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Bonhote, Elizabeth (1744–1818)

British novelist and essayist. Born 1744 in Bungay, Suffolk, England; died July 1818 in Bungay; m. Daniel Bonhote (died 1804).

Wrote The Rambles of Mr. Friendly (1772), The Fashionable Friend (1773), Olivia (1786), Darnley Vale (1789), Ellen Woodley (1790) and Bungay Castle (1796); also published a collection of essays on education, The Parental Monitor (1788), and a book of verse, Feeling (1810).

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