Elizabeth Youatt

Elizabeth Youatt
Born	1816 London
Died	1879
Nationality	British

Elizabeth Youatt or Mrs. W.H. Coates (1816 – 1879) was a British novelist.

Life

Youatt was one of four daughters born to the vet William Youatt. She wrote a large number of short novels for the Religious Tract Society. Her two most notable works were three volume novels published in the 1840s. Her father was the Queen's vet and he committed suicide in 1847^[1] at the age of 71.

In 1851 she married the younger William Henry Coates who was secretary to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. When her friend the more successful novelist Ellen Pickering died prematurely in 1851 she completed her novel, The Grandfather. Youatt died in 1879.^[2]

References

1. Elizabeth Yoatt, Victorian Research.org
2. Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. p. 613. ISBN 1317863321.