Eliza Roberts (poet)

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.

Roberts published two poems in The Lady's poetical magazine; or, Beauties of British poetry . 4 volumes. Vol. I. London: Harrison, 1781.