Eliza Wilbur

Eliza Madelina Wilbur Souvielle (October 21, 1851 – March 31, 1930[1]) was an American scientist, astronomer, botanist, inventor, author and publisher.

[3] Wilbur was the third wife of Thomas Basnett and moved to Marabanong (a historic mansion in Jacksonville, Florida) in 1880.

)[3] After Basnett's death in 1886, she married Mathieu Souvielle, a throat and lung surgeon.

She wrote Sequel to the Parliament of Religion about non-Western religions under the pseudonym Eban Malcolm Sutcliffe and The Ulyssiad (Dacosta Publishing Co. of Jacksonville, 1896), a biography of Ulysses Grant in verse.

She was active in the women's suffrage campaign, served as secretary for the Home for the Aged in Jacksonville for seven years, and was vice president of the Jacksonville Branch of the League of American Pen Women.