Eliza Rennie

Eliza Rennie or Mrs. Eliza Walker was probably bornMay 1813, although her exact birth date is uncertain, and her death date was sometime afterMar 1869, when she was awardedby the Royal Literary Fund, was a minor Scottish romanticgothic short story author and published an autobiographical twovolume work of literary gossip Traits of Character being TwentyFive Years Literary and Personal Recollections, by a Contemporary. She was most notable for writing about her friendship with Mary Shelley and her contemporaries, including meetings with such notables as the Duke of Wellington.

Mary Shelleys biographer, Emily W. Sunstein claims that Eliza was born to the famous engineering family Rennie, but this seems improbable and no corroborating evidence has been found. However, Sunsteins claim that the literary Lord Dillon Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon, was said to be Elizas lover is intriguing.

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