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Eliza Constantia Campbell

Eliza Constantia Campbell

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Eliza Constantia Campbell (née Pryce; 8 January 1796 – 1864) was a Welsh author.[1]

Campbell was the daughter of Richard Pryce, Esq., of Gunley, Montgomeryshire. She was married twice: first, in 1827,[2] to Commander Robert Campbell, R.N., of Edinburgh. Their son was the classical scholar Lewis Campbell.[3] Pryce died in 1832.

In 1833, Campbell published a collection of her stories titled Stories from the History of Wales, under the pseudonym "A Lady of the Principality";[4] It was reissued in 1837 as Tales about Wales.[4]

Campbell married Col. Hugh Morrieson, E.I.C. He died in 1859.[1]

Campbell died in 1864.[1] The National Gallery of Scotland holds a significant number of her prints.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Campbell (Morrieson), Eliza Constantia (1796-1864), author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  2. [2]
    National Library of Wales (1975). Annual Report - National Library of Wales. p. 67.
  3. [3]
    Lewis Campbell (1914). Memorials in Verse and Prose of Lewis Campbell. private circulation. p. 454.
  4. [4]
    Jane Aaron (15 February 2010). Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender, Identity. University of Wales Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-78316-395-3.
  5. [5]
    "Artworks | National Galleries of Scotland". www.nationalgalleries.org. Retrieved 8 September 2022.


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