Elizabeth Frances Amherst (poet)

Elizabeth Amherst Thomas
Mendes da Costa Lutraria magna
Lutraria magna from Emanuel Mendes da Costa's Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ (London, 1778: pl.17, fig.4). Da Costa was one of Amherst's scientific correspondents.
BornElizabeth Amherst
c. 1716
Died1779
Newbold, Warwickshire
Occupationpoet and naturalist
LanguageEnglish
SpouseJohn Thomas
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Elizabeth Frances Amherst (later Thomas; c. 1716 – 1779), was an English poet and amateur naturalist. Although she remained largely unpublished during her own lifetime, she has engendered interest among twentieth- and twenty-first-century critics.[1][2][3][4]

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