She is said to have been a royalist "perfectly satisfied with our laws and constitution." In the year of her marriage she had her second novel published, The Rambles of Mr Frankly, Published by his Sister in 1772. A street in Bungay has been named Elizabeth Bonhote Close.Įlizabeth Mapes wrote several elegies and poems in praise of the monarchy, and a first anonymous novel, Hortensia, or, The Distressed Wife in 1769. She also founded almshouses for elderly women and the widows of poor traders that still stand. After the death of Elizabeth Bonhôte at Bungay on 11 June 1818, her will disposed of several dwelling houses and a bakery and shop in the town, as well as £3500 in cash and annuities. Little else is known of her appearance or personality. He died in 1804, after they had moved to Bury St Edmunds. Daniel Bonhôte later became under-sheriff of Suffolk and captain of a militia company. Richard Dreyer, rector of Thwaite and a former curate of St Mary’s in Bungay. One of her daughters, also called Elizabeth, married Rev.
She married on 13 October 1772 Daniel Bonhôte, a Bungay solicitor and landowner, by whom she bore three children between 17. Elizabeth Bonhôte, née Mapes (baptised 11 April 1744 – 11 June 1818) was an English novelist, essayist and poet.īorn Elizabeth Mapes in Bungay, Suffolk in April 1744, she was the older of two surviving children of James Mapes (baptised 1714 –1794), a baker and grocer, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Galliard (d.
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