Elizabeth, Lady Echlin

Elizabeth Echlin
Lady Echlin
Born
Elizabeth Bellingham

1704
Died1782
Haigh Hall
Resting placeAll Saints' Church, Wigan
SpouseSir Robert Echlin, 2nd Baronet
ChildrenElizabeth Echlin

Elizabeth, Lady Echlin (née Bellingham; c. 1704 – 1782) was an English writer, best known for her correspondence with Samuel Richardson, and for writing an alternative and less shocking ending to his novel Clarissa.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Echlin [née Bellingham], Elizabeth, Lady Echlin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39722. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Coyle, Eugene A. (19 August 2006). "Lady Elizabeth Echlin (1702–82): An Irish eighteenth-century correspondent of Samuel Richardson and author of an alternative ending to Richardson's Clarissa". Irish Studies Review. 14 (1): 107–123. doi:10.1080/09670880500440735. S2CID 143173850.