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Born | Eliza Jaco 1 February 1767 Pelynt, Cornwall, England |
Died | 8 December 1840 Providence, Rhode Island, United States | (aged 73)
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Occupation | writer |
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Spouse | John Fenwick |
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Eliza Fenwick (née Jaco; 1 February 1767 – 8 December 1840) was a Cornish[1][2] author, whose works include Secresy; or The Ruin on the Rock (1795) and several children's books. She was born in Cornwall, married an alcoholic, and had two children by him. She left him and eventually went to live with her children in Barbados, where she ran a school with her daughter.[1]