author

Elisa Armstrong Bengough

d. 1929

A little-known American novelist of the turn of the twentieth century, she wrote fiction centered on social life, conversation, and everyday relationships. Her surviving books suggest a writer drawn to the texture of community and the small dramas of ordinary people.

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The Teacup Club

The Teacup Club

by Elisa Armstrong Bengough

About the author

Elisa Armstrong Bengough was an American novelist associated with the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Library and public-domain catalog sources connect her with Frederick County, Maryland, and list her as the author of The Teacup Club (1897), The Very Young Man and the Angel Child (1900), and The Talk of the Town (1902).

A brief biographical notice also identifies her as the wife of artist William Bengough of New York City. Although detailed information about her life is scarce, the record that does survive points to a writer interested in social settings and character-driven storytelling rather than grand adventure.

She died in 1929. Because so little has been preserved about her personal history, her books remain the clearest window into her voice and era.