Eliza Cook

thumb|Eliza Cook (1845) Eliza Cook (24 December 1818 – 23 September 1889) was an English author born in Southwark. She attended the local Sunday Schools and was encouraged by the son of the music master to produce her first volume of poetry. From this she took confidence and in 1837 began to offer verse to the radical Weekly Dispatch, then edited by William Johnson Fox. She was a staple of its pages for the next ten years. She also offered material to The Literary Gazette, Metropolitan Magazine and New Monthly. Quotes I love it, I love it; and who shall dareTo chide me for loving that old arm-chair? "The Old Arm-Chair", st. 1. Melaia, and Other Poems (London: Charles Tilt, 1840) p. 55 How cruelly sweet are the echoes that startWhen Memory plays an old tune on the heart. "Old Dobbin", st. 16. Melaia, &c. (1840) p. 82 Better build school-rooms for "the boy,"Than cells and gibbets for "the man." "A Song for the Ragged Schools", st. 12. Eliza Cook's Journal, vol. 1 (October 1849) p. 288 On what strange stuff Ambition feeds. "Poor Hood", st. 4. Poetical Works (London: Frederick Warne & Co. 1869) p. 577 External links Category:1818 births Category:1889 deaths Category:Poets from England Category:Editors from England Category:Women authors from England Category:LGBT people Category:People from London Category:Women journalists from England Category:Women born in the 19th century Category:Victorian poets