Elizabeth Kent (c. 1791–1861) was a nineteenth century British writer on botanical and horticultural matters.
The younger sister of Marianne Kent, the future wife of Leigh Hunt, the English critic and writer, it was Bess who initially drew Hunt into the family circle through her youthful admiration for his work.
[1] Through her brother-in-law, Hunt, for whom she acted as agent and amanuensis,[2] she belonged to a circle (the Cockney School)[3] of contemporary writers including Byron, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and John Clare.
[4] Her best known work, Flora Domestica, quoting extensively from Hunt and Keats,[7] was published anonymously in 1823, and incorrectly attributed to Henry Phillips by F. W. Burbidge in his work on Narcissus (1875).
[8][2] Other works include New Tales for Young Readers (1822)[9] and Sylvan Sketches (1825).