Eliza Cook | |
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 Portrait by William Etty, c. 1845 | |
| Born | 24 December 1818 London Road, Southwark, England |
| Died | 23 September 1889 (aged 70) Wimbledon, England |
| Resting place | St Mary's Church, Wimbledon |
| Occupation | poet, activist |
| Period | 1830s–1880s |
Eliza Cook (24 December 1818 – 23 September 1889) was an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up." This made her hugely popular with the working class public in both England and America.