A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Tollet, (Elizabeth)
She received a handsome fortune from her father, who also bestowed on her a liberal education. Besides great skill in music and drawing, she applied herself to the study of the Latin, Italian, and French languages, and spoke them all with fluency and ease. She afterwards made great progress in the mathematics and history. In the former part of her life she resided in the Tower of London; in the latter, at Stratford and Westham, in Essex. She died, 1754, aged sixty, and was buried in Westham church.
In her Poems, published 1755, are several imitations and translations of Horace; a translation of Claudian's Old Man of Verona; An Ode on the Crucifixion; Rules, in verse, to her Brother, on his Conduct in Life; A Paraphrase of Agur's Wish; The Destruction of Babylon, from Isaiah; select Psalms; and other little compositions, equally entertaining and pious.