A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Tomlins, Elizabeth S.
TOMLINS, ELIZABETH S.,
An ingenious poetess, novelist, and miscellaneous writer, was born in London, in 1768. Her father was Thomas Tomlins, Esq., an eminent solicitor. She showed an early talent for poetry; but afterwards turning her attention to the composition of tales and novels, she published successively several works, the most popular was, "The Victim of Fancy," and a ballad, entitled "Connell and Mary." Miss Tomlins also translated the first history of Napoleon Bonaparte. She died at her residence at Chalden, in Surrey, 1826.