Elizabeth Elstob
(1683-1756)

woman and scholar

Died aged 72

Elizabeth Elstob (29 September 1683 – 3 June 1756), the "Saxon Nymph", was a pioneering scholar of Anglo-Saxon. She was the first person to publish a grammar of Old English written in modern English.

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Elizabeth Elstob 1683-1756

Elizabeth Elstob 1683-1756

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