Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (Mrs. Randolph) (1822-1904)
Mary Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer was born in London and died in Baltimore, Maryland. Her family traveled extensively throughout Europe and the United States, and she was privately educated. She married Randolph Brandt Latimer in 1856, and moved with him to Baltimore, where she spent the rest of her life. Latimer is best known for her writings on contemporary European history, especially for her translations and her works focusing on the nineteenth century in various Western and Eastern European countries. Latimer was an enthusiastic member of the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore from its genesis in 1890 until her death in 1904. She was often praised by the Club members for her historical and translation work.
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Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice and Frances E. Willard, eds. American women: fifteen hundred biographies with over 1,400 portraits: a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century. New York; Chicago; Springfield, Ohio: Mast, Cromwell & Kirkpatrick, 1897: 451.
Shepherd, Henry Elliot. The Representative Authors of Maryland. New York: Whitehall Publishing Company, 1911. 126.
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