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Susanna Centlivre wrothe The Busie Body in 1709. It is one of the laughing comedies (this category is listed but not hyperlinked under Comedy). According to , she "followed the practices of her contemporaries in borrowing the plot for The Busie Body. The three sources for the play are: The Devil Is an Ass (1616) by Jonson; L'Etourdi (1658) by Molière; and Sir Martin Mar-all or The Feigned Innocence (1667) by Dryden."

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Eldridge, Elleanor, 1784-1845?

Elleanor Eldridge (1784-1845?) was a 19th-century African-American entrepreneur and tradeswoman. Her Memoirs (1838) by writer and activist, Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall provide the most biographical information about Eldridge, though some recent scholarship has challenged this. The Memoirs are rare in that they document the life of a free black woman from the late eighteenth into the mid-nineteenth centuries. As with other African-American narratives from the antebellum period, the Memoirs are framed by testimonials, but as Amina Gautier points out, "the purpose of these was not to prove the authenticity of the text and assuage the doubts that a black person and former slave actually wrote the text," but to testify to her character "as a woman so generous and kind that she subscribed 'for papers which she cannot read, in order to promote the circulation of truth, whether moral, or religious' (91). Offered by Rhode Island women who had all hired her at one point or another in various capacities as a spinner, laundress, weaver, or dairy-maker, the testimonials also stress her industry, entrepreneurship, and thrift."

Early Life

Elleanor Eldridge was born in Warwick, Rhode Island 1784, the seventh daughter of Hannah Prophet and Robin Eldridge. Her father had been a slave but earned his emancipation fighting in the Revolutionary War.

UNC Source: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/eldridge/summary.html http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/elleanor-eldridge-businesswoman-amid-oppression Gautier, Amina. "African American women's writings in the Woman's Building Library." Libraries & Culture. 41.1 (Winter 2006): p55

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The youngest of seven daughters born to Hannah Prophet and Robin Eldridge, a slave who won his freedom fighting in the Revolution, Eldridge began working as a laundress at age ten following the death of her mother. Industrious and naturally bright, she quickly became adept at arithmetic, spinning, weaving, cheesemaking, and all types of housework. Drawing on her skill with numbers, at age nineteen Eldridge took over her deceased father's estate and quickly opened a business with her sister in Warwick, Rhode Island, weaving, nursing, and making soap. Realizing that investment and versatility were the keys to success, she used their profits to purchase a lot and build a house which she rented out for forty dollars a year. Eldridge eventually settled in Providence, where she opened a profitable business whitewashing, painting, and wallpapering. Her hard work and enterprising nature enabled her to eventually purchase several houses in Providence for rent income. Her Memoirs, published in 1838, is one of the few narratives of the life of a free black woman."

Memoirs edited by Moody http://wvupressonline.com/moody_memoirs_of_elleanor_eldridge_9781935978237 "Summary Elleanor Eldridge, born of African and US indigenous descent in 1794, operated a lucrative domestic services business in nineteenth century Providence, Rhode Island. In defiance of her gender and racial background, she purchased land and built rental property from the wealth she gained as a business owner. In the 1830s, Eldridge was defrauded of her property by a white lender. In a series of common court cases as defendant and plaintiff, she managed to recover it through the Rhode Island judicial system. In order to raise funds to carry out this litigation, her memoir, which includes statements from employers endorsing her respectable character, was published in 1838. Frances Harriet Whipple, an aspiring white writer in Rhode Island, narrated and co-authored Eldridge’s story, expressing a proto-feminist outrage at the male “extortioners” who caused Eldridge’s loss and distress.

With the rarity of Eldridge’s material achievements aside, Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge forms an exceptional antebellum biography, chronicling Eldridge’s life from her birth. Because of Eldridge’s exceptional life as a freeborn woman of color entrepreneur, it constitutes a counter-narrative to slave narratives of early 19th-century New England, changing the literary landscape of conventional American Renaissance studies and interpretations of American Transcendentalism.

With an introduction by Joycelyn K. Moody, this new edition contextualizes the extraordinary life of Elleanor Eldridge—from her acquisition of wealth and property to the publication of her biography and her legal struggles to regain stolen property. Because of her mixed-race identity, relative wealth, local and regional renown, and her efficacy in establishing a collective of white women patrons, this biography challenges typical African and indigenous women’s literary production of the early national period and resituates Elleanor Eldridge as an important cultural and historical figure of the nineteenth century" http://warwickonline.com/stories/From-slaves-daughter-to-landlord-Elleanor-Eldridge-a-little-known-character-in-Warwick-history,90229

memoris on internet archive: https://archive.org/details/memoirsofelleanore00eldr and here http://www.mocavo.com/Memoirs-of-Elleanor-Eldridge/894764

book via google books: African-American Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs

By Rachel Kran

A Rhode Island Original: Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall

By Sarah C. O'Dowd

Encyclopedia of African American Business, Volume 1

edited by Jessie Carney Smith