Elizabeth Julia Hasell

Elizabeth Julia Hasell was born at Dalemain country house, near Penrith, Cumbria, England, on 14 January 1830.

[a] She was the second daughter of Dorothea and Edward Williams Hasell who lived at Dalemain, and were the lord and lady of the Dacre and Soulby manors.

After writing sundry magazine articles on Spanish and Portuguese authors, she compiled two of the most scholarly volumes in the series of Foreign Classics for English Readers -those on Calderón and Torquato Tasso- both published in 1877.

[1] Besides pursuing her studies, she gave a large portion of her time to promoting education and the general welfare of the district in which she lived, walking long distances across the hills to teach in village schools or deliver extempore addresses, in which she showed a quite unusual facility.

Her philanthropic endeavors probably hastened her death, as in her desire to do good to a scattered population, she made light of fatigue and exposure to rain and cold.