1780–1788) was a British Romantic-era poet and translator of Rousseau.
She was possibly the same Eliza Roberts, said to be "literary",[1] who was mother to travel writer and poet Emma Roberts.
[2] As "Miss Roberts", she published two poems, "Effusions of melancholy" and "On a supposed slight from a friend" in the Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or Beauties of British Poetry (1781-1782).
Selected by a Lady, translations of a series of excerpts from various works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
[5] "Effusions of melancholy" and "On a supposed slight from a friend" were anthologized in the first known anthology of writing by women in English, Poems by Eminent Ladies (2nd edition, 1785, pp.