author
active 1895-1897 Elizabeth Hodges
Known today for a single surviving work, this little-documented writer left behind a compact piece of late-19th-century history writing about John Cabot and the Cabot memorial on Brandon Hill. The mystery around the author only adds to the book’s old-world charm.
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The Cabots and the Discovery of America With a Brief Description and History of Brandon Hill, the Site of the Cabot Memorial Tower
by active 1895-1897 Elizabeth Hodges
About the author
Very little biographical information appears to be firmly documented about this author. Library and public-domain catalog records identify Elizabeth Hodges as a writer active from 1895 to 1897, rather than giving birth and death dates, which usually means the surviving record is limited.
The work most clearly linked to her is The Cabots and the Discovery of America (1897), a historical book connected with John Cabot and Brandon Hill, the site of the Cabot memorial tower. Because the available sources focus on the book rather than the person, it is safest to describe her as a little-known late-Victorian author whose reputation rests on that publication.
No reliable portrait could be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so none is included here.