She was connected to the Blue Stockings Society, and after bereavements in the 1790s began to edit family papers, and write on her own account.
Lord Bute rented Waltham Place to be near Henry Frinsham, and he frequently played cards at the vicarage.
Here Eliza Berkeley passed her childhood, since her father would not accept preferment on condition of voting against his principles.
In 1763 at Bray, on 8 February, she gave birth to her son, George Monck Berkeley, having at this time ague, and being exposed to the danger of smallpox, which was then endemic.
[2][3] Eliza, supported by her friend Susanna Duncombe, became a dominant figure in the group of wives of the chapter.
After their son (George) Monck had been to Eton College, the family went to live in Scotland during the time he passed at the University of St Andrews.
[2] Eliza Berkeley dates from several places in the last three years of her life, Chertsey, Henley, Oxford, Sackville Street; she died at Kensington in 1800, aged 66.
She was charitable, and with other benevolent works she paid an annuity up to her death to Richard Brenan, who had been Jonathan Swift's servant at the end of his life.