Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton (1795 – 20 September 1855) was a British poet, playwright, and author.

[1] In Mumbai on 3 November 1819, she married James Norton, then in the naval service of the East India Company.

[1] Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton died on 20 September 1855 in Baden-Baden at the home of her son-in-law, diplomat Frederic Douglas-Hamilton.

The latter was a long narrative poem about the doomed interracial love between a Christian woman, Rosaline, and the titular Moorish commander.

"[7] The two women engaged in a debate about this confusion and the appropriate use of British naming conventions in letters to The Times.