Quote
"There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam."
All quotationsThemes Eliza Cook wrote about
Biography
Eliza Cook was an English author, Chartist poet and writer born in London Road, Southwark
Background
She was the daughter of a local tradesman. She attended the local Sunday Schools and was encouraged by the son of the music master to produce her first volume of poetry. From this she took confidence and in 1837 began to offer verse to the radical Weekly Dispatch, then edited by William Johnson Fox. She was a staple of its pages for the next ten years. She also offered material to The Literary Gazette, Metropolitan Magazine and New Monthly.
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