Elizabeth Hands [SEP] date of death
Elizabeth Hands
Elizabeth Hands (1746–1815) was an English poet. Before the birth of her daughter she worked as a domestic servant for at least one family in Warwickshire, in the area between Rugby and Coventry. By 1785, when her daughter was born, she was married to a blacksmith, from whom she acquired the surname "Hands" (her maiden name is unknown). They lived near Rugby.
Publication of "The Death of Amnon" (1789).
Poems written by Hands using the pseudonym
that line may only mean that she herself delineated the patterns which she afterwards rendered in needlework. The line 'Three manner hands could she write, them faire all' does however indicate that she could write beautifully in three different scripts.
Reformist connections.
Elizabeth Lucar's date of death is noted (as an interpolation) in the Calendar of the 15th-century Book of Hours known as "The Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours". A closely similar text is annotated into the Calendar of a 1535 printed copy of William