Background
Woodrooffe was born on 14 July 1766. Her father was John Cox of Harwich.
Woodrooffe was born on 14 July 1766. Her father was John Cox of Harwich.
She was best known for her 1824 religious novel Shades of Character. The couple had two children, Emma Martha (b 30 May 1807) and Thomas Wood (d 19 December 1865). The 1900 Dictionary of National Biography indicates she died on 24 March 1830, while 1966"s Jane Austen and Some Contemporaries indicates her death was in 1850.