Fay, Eliza (1756–1816)
Fay, Eliza (1756–1816)
British letter writer. Born 1756, possibly in Blackheath, Worcestershire, England; died Sept 1816 in Calcutta, India; m. Anthony Fay, late 1770s.
Traveled to India with husband whom she later divorced; attempted several business schemes in India but ended in debt; letters, published posthumously in Calcutta as Original Letters from India—1779–1815 (1817), give account of Anglo-Indian life.
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