![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her biographer, Jenny Uglow, has argued: "Elizabeth Stevenson was educated at home, by her aunts and occasional outside tutors, and at the Sunday school of Brook Street Chapel, until 1821. She was "very, very unhappy" on such visits, she later wrote, adding that were it not for the comfort of the river, and some local friends, "I think my child's heart would have broken". They had two more children but Elizabeth stayed with his aunt, visiting her father and stepmother rarely. In 1814 her father married Catherine Thomson. Hannah's own daughter, Marianne, was disabled and died in 1812, aged twenty-one. Her aunt was legally separated from her husband, who had been declared insane. Unable to raise her himself, Stevenson sent Elizabeth to live with her aunt Hannah Lamb, who lived in Knutsford, Cheshire. Elizabeth's father was a Unitarian but had given up preaching to become the Keeper of the Treasury Records. Her mother, worn out by giving birth to eight children, of whom only two survived, died thirteen months later. Elizabeth Stevenson, the second surviving child of William Stevenson (1770-1829 and his first wife, Elizabeth Holland Stevenson (1771–1811), was born in Lindsey Row (now Cheyne Walk), Chelsea, London, on 29th September 1810. ![]()
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