Frances Minto Elliot (1820 - 1898)

Short name Frances Minto Elliot
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First name Frances
Birth name Minto Elliot
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Alternative name Frances Vickriss Dickinson , Frances Elliot , Mrs Elliot , Frances Geils , Florentia
Date of birth 1820
Date of death 1898
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Place of birth England
Place of death Italy
Lived in Scotland , England
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Frances Minto Elliot was ...
related to Mary Russell Mitford
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Place(s) of Residence Scotland , England
Receptions of Frances Minto Elliot, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Acrimonious divorce from her first husband, who was allegedly violent towards her, which dragged on for many year before it was finally granted and was widely reported in the press. It was described in The Critic as "perhaps the worst ... that ever was reported in the English press" (cited in Pilgrim, vol.8, 361n). It was after this time that she began to write. Born in Somerset. Also lived in Italy. Died in Siena, buried in Rome. - Married [John Edward Geils, 1838; Very Rev. Gilbert Elliot, Dean of Bristol, 1863] - Divorced [Geils 1855] - Separated [Elliot 1867?] - 4 daughters - 3 step-children Other income: inherited wealth. Friend of Dickens, Collins, Trollope. Travel writer. KLK 1904