Eliza Cook (1818–89) was an English author, Chartist poet and writer born in London Road, Southwark. Eliza Cook was the youngest of the eleven children of a brasier living in London Road, Southwark. When she was about nine years old her father retired from business, and the family went to live at a small farm in St. Leonard’s Forest, near Horsham. Her mother encouraged Eliza’s fondness for imaginative literature, but the child was almost entirely self-educated. She began to write verses before she was fifteen; indeed, some of her most popular poems, such as ‘I’m afloat’ and the ‘Star of Glengarry,’ were composed in her girlhood.
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Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.
—Eliza Cook
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