Background
She was born to Elizabeth Kerrill and Jeffrey Amherst (1677–1750) of Kent, one of two girls and seven boys.
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Elizabeth Amherst
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Career
Her poetry, described as "sprightly" (Greer et al 179), would seem to have circulated mainly in manuscript, though a few poems were printed anonymously in the 1760s. They are mainly known, however, from the Bodleian manuscript, "The Whims of East.A. afterwards Mistress
