Carey, Elizabeth Sheridan, 1805-1882

found: Bentley's miscellany, 1842:volume 11, number 63, pages 254 (Valentine's day, by Elizabeth Sheridan Carey)

found: Ed Pope History, via WWW, 18 December 2017(Elizabeth Sheridan Carey (1805-1882), poet, was born at York 18 October 1805 and ran a school at 10 Regent Quadrant, London with Charlotte Eale Bartlett in the 1830s; in 1844 her poem A Warning Cry against poverty and oppression was printed in several newspapers in the north of England and in America; in 1848 she published a letter to the provisional government of France on the rights of women, and in 1849 she was toasted at a Burns night at Sheffield; from 1849 she was selling pictures inherited from her father to Charles Winn 1795-1874 of Nostell Priory, including a Rembrandt (since attributed to Ferdinand Bol) for 350 guineas; from 1857 to 1863 she presented poems to English and French royalty on royal weddings and funerals, one of which was received by Queen Victoria 'with especial favour'; she lived her later years in Versailles, dying unmarried there on 27 April 1882; daughter of Irishman William Paulet Carey)