ELIZA COOK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2239, 28 September 1889, Page 2

ELIZA COOK.

Ei m Cook, poi tas*, whose death has jo*t been announced by oable waß (cays "Man of tbo Time") the 4 daughter of a respeotable tradesman of Southward, and was born about 1818 At an parly age she contrlbu l "1 to vsr'oua periodicals, Ino'udln« tha New Monthly, Metropolitan, Literary Gazette, c c, and published In 1840 a volaaae of poems, which at once attraoted the attention of the publio, and sUmp sd her as a writer of great merit and originality. She mora than sustained this favored position In the 'Journal' which bore her nam i, and whioh was published wacky from 1849 until 1854; when, on account of falling heabb, is was given up, to the great regret of Its re^dets Her poama, reprinted In a collected form, have passed through numerous editions, and a beautifully

Illustrated Christmas volume wav Issued n 1860. She published another volume, lutitled 'New Echoes, and other Poems,' m October, 1864, and obtained a literary paußlon of £100 per annum the same year," Middle-aged people will reolleot some of her poems, wh'oh set to moslo - some of tbem by Ru sell, wore very popnlar songs thirty years ago, suoh as ■■ The Old Arm Obalr," " Therb'a a Good Time Ooming," and (> The Englishman,'* the last- namod cf which promises to survive ss loog «s the English language.