Elizabeth Jervis was born in London in 1763 and spent her pre-marriage years in Leicestershire.
Her father, Philip Jervis, was a successful silk-mill owner, and the family was comfortably seated at an estate in Netherseal.
At some time in the early nineteenth century, she taught schoolchildren in Tamworth, including her niece, another Elizabeth Jervis.
A Latin and French scholar, Pipe-Wolferstan wrote several slim volumes of poetry including the entertaining Fairy Tales in verse published in 1829.
She is featured in the new University of Colorado Boulder online collection of woman Romantic poets.