Cobbold, Elizabeth (c. 1764–1824)

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Cobbold, Elizabeth (c. 1764–1824)

British poet. Name variations: Eliza Clarke; Elizabeth Clarke. Born c. 1764; died 1824; m. William Clarke, 1790 (died 1790); m. John Cobbold.

Works include Poems on Various Subjects (1783), Six Narrative Poems (1781), and the novel The Sword, or Father Bertrand's History of His Own Time (1791); also published in magazines and in The Ladies Fashionable Repository.

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