Elizabeth Youatt

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Elizabeth Youatt
Born1816
London
Died1879
NationalityBritish

Elizabeth Youatt or Mrs. W.H. Coates (1816–1879) was a British novelist.

Life[edit]

Youatt was one of four daughters born to the vet William Youatt. She wrote a large number of short novels for the Religious Tract Society. Her two most notable works were three volume novels published in the 1840s. Her father was the Queen's vet and he was a suicide in 1847[1] at the age of 71.

In 1851 she married the younger William Henry Coates who was secretary to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. When her friend the more successful novelist Ellen Pickering died prematurely in 1851 she completed her novel, The Grandfather. Youatt died in 1879.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Elizabeth Youatt, Victorian Research.org
  2. ^ Sutherland, John (13 October 2014). The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. p. 613. ISBN 978-1317863328.