Alethea Lewis

Background

She was two years old when her mother died and her father sent her away to live with her maternal grandfather, who was a linen draper in Framlingham, Suffolk. Her father later remarried and had more daughters.

Career

She also used the pseudonym Eugenia de Acton. Alethea"s father was the Anglican cleric Reverend James Brereton. The couple lived in Philadelphia for a year, and then returned to England, where they finally settled in Penkridge, Staffordshire, where she died in 1827.

Connections

Friend:

George Crabbe