Eliza Grey

Born Eliza Lucy Spencer around 1819, she was the daughter of the Government Resident at Albany in Western Australia. She married George Grey in 1839, before his rise as a prominent colonial governor, and her life became closely tied to the imperial world of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain.

Historical accounts describe the marriage as deeply unhappy. After years of strain and illness, she and George Grey separated for decades, with only a difficult late reconciliation before both died in 1898. Because of that dramatic personal history, she is remembered less as a literary author than as a notable colonial-era figure whose life appears in biographies, portraits, and historical records.

If this is the Eliza Grey you meant, the surviving sources point to a historical subject rather than a clearly documented book author, so details about any writing published under her own name are not well confirmed.