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 Mrs Ellett, or Ellet, has been long before
the public as an author. Having contributed largely to the newspapers
and
other periodicals in her youth, she first made her débût
on a more comprehensive scale, as the writer of "Teresa Contarini", a
five-act
tragedy, which had considerable merit, but was withdrawn after its
first
night of representation at the Park. This occurred at some period
previous
to the year 1834; the precise date I am unable to remember. The ill
success
of the play had little effect in repressing the ardor of the poetess,
who
has since furnished numerous papers to the Magazines. Her articles are,
for the most part, in the rifacimento way, and, although no
doubt
composed in good faith, have the disadvantage of looking as if
hashed
up for just so much money as they will bring. The charge of wholesale
plagiarism
which has been adduced against Mrs. Ellett, I confess that I have not
felt
sufficient interest in her works, to investigate — and am therefore
bound
to believe it unfounded. In person [[,]] short and much included to embonpoint.
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