Elizabeth Whately

Whately was born in 1795, the daughter of William Pope of Hillingdon, Middlesex, and his wife, Mary ({{nee}} Heaton) Pope.{{cite book|author=Robert P. Dod|title=The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland for 1862|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-ANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA229|year=1862|page=229}}{{cite book|author=William John Fitzpatrick|title=Memoirs of Richard Whately|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NjAPAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA23|publisher=Рипол Классик|isbn=978-5-87586-582-4|page=23|year=1864}} She was baptised at St John the Baptist in Hillingdon on 22 December 1795.{{efn|Her daughter Jane Whately's memoir of her sister Mary Louisa Whately gives Elizabeth's father as J. C. Pope of Hillingdon, although this seems likely to be a mistake; or, he was referred to as J. C. to distinguish him from William Pope the elder.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/lifeworkofmarylo00what#page/n12/mode/1up/search/Pope|title=The Life and Work of Mary Louisa Whately|last1=Whately|first1=Elizabeth Jane|year=1890|work=Internet Archive|publisher=Religious Tract Society|page=10|accessdate=30 March 2016|location=London}}}}

The Pope family acquired the Hillingdon rectory estate during the 18th century, from the Harington family.{{cite book|author=Daniel Lysons|title=An Historical Account of those Parishes in the County of Middlesex: which are not described in the Environs of London|url=https://archive.org/details/anhistoricalacc00lysogoog|year=1800|publisher=Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies|page=[https://archive.org/details/anhistoricalacc00lysogoog/page/n219 167]}} William Pope, the elder, married in 1773 the daughter of Richard Mills, vicar of Hillingdon, resided at the parsonage, and was buried in the churchyard in 1789.{{cite book|title=Sentimental Magazine, Or, General Assemblage of Science, Taste, and Entertainment|year=1773|page=240}}{{cite web|url=http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?PersonID=164990|title=CCED: Persons Index Mills, Richard 164990|accessdate=23 March 2016|archive-date=4 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404173220/http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?PersonID=164990|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|title=The Universal Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ki02AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA55|year=1773|publisher=Pub. for J. Hinton|page=55}}{{cite book|author=Daniel Lysons|title=An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex: which are not described in the Environs of London|url=https://archive.org/details/anhistoricalacc00lysogoog|year=1800|publisher=Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies|pages=[https://archive.org/details/anhistoricalacc00lysogoog/page/n216 164]}} With others he had briefly owned Whitton Park in the 1760s.{{cite web|url=http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/house-details.php?houseid=161&categoryid=2|title=Twickenham Museum - houses of local interest: Whitton Park|accessdate=30 March 2016}} His widow Mabel died in 1823, at age 88.{{cite news|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000073/18230726/023/0004|title=Died|date=26 July 1823|work=Oxford Journal|page=4|via=British Newspaper Archive|accessdate=30 March 2016}}

William Pope, the younger, of Gray's Inn, was admitted on 19 April 1787 as the eldest son of William Pope of Hillingdon; he worked in the Exchequer office. He married Mary Heaton, only daughter of the Rev. Sherlock Willis, rector of Wormley, in 1790, and died in 1809.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/registerofadmiss00gray#page/393/mode/1up|title=The register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521–1889, together with the register of marriages in Gray's inn chapel, 1695-1754|last1=Foster|first1=Joseph|year=1889|work=Internet Archive|publisher=Hansard publishing union, Ltd.|page=393|accessdate=24 March 2016|location=London}}{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v6BEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA390|year=1809|publisher=F. Jeffries|page=390}}{{cite book|title=The Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military, and Literary Journal, For the YEAR|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8IPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA428|year=1790|page=428}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/The-Registers-of-Marriages-of-St-Mary-Le-Bone-Middlesex-1668-1812-and-of-Oxford-Chapel-Vere-Street-St-Mary-Le-Bone-1736-1754-Volume-Lii/667516/138|title=The Registers of Marriages of St. Mary le Bone, Middlesex, 1668-1812: and of Oxford Chapel, Vere Street, St. Mary le Bone, 1736-1754|volume=LII|page=138|accessdate=22 March 2016}} They had daughters and a son; one of the daughters died in 1829, in Tunbridge Wells.[http://www.newmanreader.org/works/letters_diaries/svolume_II.pdf The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman (PDF), p. 151 and note 2, p. 176]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Elizabeth was the third daughter; the youngest daughter Louisa married Henry Bishop in 1833.{{cite news|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001428/18330917/024/0004|title=Married|date=17 September 1833|work=Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser|page=4|via=British Newspaper Archive|accessdate=30 March 2016}} Charlotte Pope, Elizabeth's sister, married Baden Powell in 1837 as his second wife.{{cite book|author=Pietro Corsi|title=Science and Religion: Baden Powell and the Anglican Debate, 1800–1860|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VJHB3j_VCUQC&pg=PA144|date=26 May 1988|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-24245-5|page=144}}

Elizabeth's brother was William Law Pope, who matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford in 1814, at age 17.{{cite book|author=Pietro Corsi|title=Science and Religion: Baden Powell and the Anglican Debate, 1800-1860|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VJHB3j_VCUQC&pg=PA78|date=26 May 1988|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-24245-5|page=78}}s:Page:Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 3.djvu/364 Beidler infers that Elizabeth Pope may have worked as a governess, a parallel possibly existing with the plot of The Roving Bee (1855) attributed to her.{{cite book|author=Peter G. Beidler|title=The Roving Bee: Or, A Peep Into Many Hives|date=18 April 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TFc5rU6r9qAC&pg=PR10|publisher=Coffeetown Press|isbn=978-1-60381-062-3|pages=x–xi}} In any case Charlotte Brontë praised her empathy with the plight of the governess in an unrelated family, expressed in Pope's 1847 work English Life.{{cite book|author=Drew Lamonica|title=We Are Three Sisters: Self and Family in the Writing of the Brontës|url=https://archive.org/details/wearethreesister00lamo_0|url-access=registration|year=2003|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-6268-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/wearethreesister00lamo_0/page/121 121]}} Thomas Mozley states that Elizabeth's brother was an old friend of John Frederick Christie, fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and accompanied Richard Whately to Dublin.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/a596200901mozluoft#page/n299/mode/1up/search/Christie|title=Reminiscences : chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement|last1=Mozley|first1=Thomas|year=1882|work=Internet Archive|publisher=Longmans, Green|page=268|volume=1|accessdate=30 March 2016|location=London}}

A further Oxford connection was the Rev. James Pope, Elizabeth's uncle, a Fellow of St John's College and evangelical, who became vicar of Great Staughton.'Parishes: Great Staughton', in A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 2, ed. William Page, Granville Proby and S Inskip Ladds (London, 1932), pp. 354-369. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hunts/vol2/pp354-369 [accessed 22 March 2016].{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofparisho00wats#page/46/mode/1up|title=A History of the Parish of Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire|last1=Watson|first1=Henry George|year=1916|work=Internet Archive|publisher=P. C. Tomson|page=46|accessdate=22 March 2016|location=St. Neots}}s:Page:Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 3.djvu/363

Elizabeth Pope had a first cousin, Sherlock Willis, son of the Rev John Law Willis and thus grandson of the Rev Sherlock Willis, her maternal grandfather.s:Page:Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 4.djvu/385{{cite book|author=Arthur Jones|title=Hertfordshire 1731-1800 as Recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_hkA87TVeW4C&pg=PA163|year=1993|publisher=Univ of Hertfordshire Press|isbn=978-0-901354-73-0|page=163}}{{cite book|title=The European Magazine, and London Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2vgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA478|year=1790|publisher=Philological Society of London|page=478}} Sherlock Willis was an Oxford friend of Richard Whately, whom she met in 1820, and married in 1821 in Cheltenham; she was living there with her widowed mother, when Whately came with Willis to take the waters.{{cite ODNB|id=29176|first=Richard|last=Brent|title=Whately, Richard}}{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/lifeofwhately01whatuoft#page/n65/mode/1up/|title=Life and Correspondence of Richard Whately, D.D., late Archbishop of Dublin|last1=Whately|first1=Elizabeth Jane|year=1866|work=Internet Archive|publisher=Longmans, Green|volume=1|page=42|accessdate=23 March 2016|location=London}}

The Whatelys moved to Halesworth, a living taken by Richard who was required to give up his college fellowship at Oriel on marrying. Elizabeth found the parishioners there to be in a state of "heathenish ignorance".{{cite book|title=The London Quarterly Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EXFAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA477|year=1867|publisher=Epworth Press|page=477}} They had five children; Elizabeth herself and her two elder daughters, Jane Whately and Mary Louisa Whately, were in time active in religiously inspired works.Carol Poster, An Organon for Theology: Whately's Rhetoric and Logic in Religious Context, Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric Vol. 24, No. 1 (Winter 2006), pp. 37–77 at p. 43 note 13. Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric

DOI: 10.1525/rh.2006.24.1.37 Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rh.2006.24.1.37 Elizabeth was ill in Halesworth, and a sister came to visit, becoming ill also; the malady was called "typhus fever".{{cite book|author1=Richard Whately|author2=Elizabeth Jane Whately|title=Life and Correspondence of Richard Whately, D.D.: Late Archbishop of Dublin|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeandcorrespo00whatgoog|year=1866|publisher=Longmans, Green|page=[https://archive.org/details/lifeandcorrespo00whatgoog/page/n65 45]}}

They returned to Oxford after three years, when Richard became head of St Alban's Hall, Oxford in 1825. Elizabeth Whately knew the leaders of what would be the Tractarian group socially, riding with John Henry Newman on 7 October 1831, according to his diary.[http://www.newmanreader.org/works/letters_diaries/svolume_II.pdf The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman (PDF), p. 364]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} John Keble had visited the Whately's at Halesworth, reading to them from the Christian Year in manuscript;{{cite book|title=The London Quarterly vol. XXVII October 1866 and January 1867|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mdsEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA479|year=1867|page=479}} and the Whatelys called on the newly married Edward Pusey and his wife on 18 September 1828.{{cite web|url=http://anglicanhistory.org/pusey/liddon/1.9.html|title=Project Canterbury Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey by Henry Parry Liddon, D.D. London: Longmans, 1894 volume one Chapter IX|accessdate=31 March 2016}} Elizabeth had some criticism of a sermon of Edward Hawkins, Provost of Oriel College, causing Richard to write an apology on 2 March 1831, if not quite seriously.{{cite book|author=Boyd Hilton|title=A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FDFHmqU_6SEC&pg=PR99|date=16 February 2006|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-160682-3|page=xcix}}

In the early 1830s, Richard Whately was made Anglican Archbishop of Dublin, and the family moved to Ireland. But the marriage was under strain. Joseph Blanco White formed part of the household, as tutor to Edward Whately. The archbishop came to view his theology as a bad influence on his wife, who was experiencing a crisis of her Christian faith. Matters came to a head at the end of 1834, over a translation Blanco White, who was in transition to a Unitarian position, was making from August Neander. Elizabeth had a confiding relationship with Blanco White, as did her sister Charlotte who was aware of the strife, and they kept in touch by letter when he had left Dublin.{{cite book|author=Martin Murphy|title=Blanco White: Self-banished Spaniard|year=1989|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-04458-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/blancowhiteselfb00murp/page/167 167–8 and note 23, 192–3]|url=https://archive.org/details/blancowhiteselfb00murp/page/167}}

At the end of her life, from December 1834, Felicia Hemans spent time at Redesdale, the Whately's place in Kilmacud, and corresponded with Elizabeth.{{cite book|title=Littell's Saturday Magazine: Or, Spirit of the Magazines and Annuals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0eEaAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA222|year=1836|publisher=E. Littell and Company|page=222}}{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Hemans, Felicia Dorothea |volume=13 |page=257}} The Whatelys were in Rugby visiting Thomas Arnold in autumn 1835, and Elizabeth made an impression on the young William Charles Lake.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/a589551300lakeuoft#page/n186/mode/1up|title=Memorials of William Charles Lake, Dean of Durham, 1869–1894|last1=Lake|first1=Katharine Gladstone|last2=Gurney|first2=Henry Palin|last3=Rawlinson|first3=George|year=1901|via=Internet Archive|publisher=E. Arnold|page=157|accessdate=25 March 2016|location=London}} Tom Arnold, son of the family, wrote of her:

Her features were far from regular, but in her best days the eyes beamed with kindness and intelligence, and wonderfully lit up the rest of the face. In the whole Whately circle there was no one, I think — and we loved them all — to whom the hearts of the whole Arnold circle went out with so warm and special a love as to the mother. She was drawn in her later years into the proselytising operations which awakened

the zeal of her daughters, and a great family sorrow came to throw a shade of gloom upon her once radiant forehead; but the intrinsic benevolence of her nature never changed.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/passagesinwander00arno#page/n38/mode/1up|title=Passages in a Wandering Life|last1=Arnold|first1=Thomas|year=1900|work=Internet Archive|publisher=E. Arnold|page=23|accessdate=25 March 2016|location=London}}

In 1841 Elizabeth suffered a compound fracture of her leg.{{cite book|author1=Richard Whately|author2=Elizabeth Jane Whately|title=Life and Correspondence of Richard Whately, D.D.: Late Archbishop of Dublin|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeandcorrespo00whatgoog|year=1866|publisher=Longmans, Green|page=[https://archive.org/details/lifeandcorrespo00whatgoog/page/n501 481]}} She challenged George Combe on his 1847 pamphlet Remarks on National Education.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/lifegeorgecombe00gibbgoog#page/n247/mode/1up/search/Whately|title=The Life of George Combe, author of "The constitution of man"|last1=Gibbon|first1=Charles|year=1878|work=Internet Archive|publisher=Macmillan & Co.|pages=volume II 231|accessdate=26 March 2016|location=London}} Another disagreement with her husband with a theological root was Elizabeth's support in the 1840s for Alexander Dallas, whose efforts with Irish Church Missions were dismissed by the archbishop.{{cite book|author1=Rolf Loeber|author2=Magda Stouthamer-Loeber|author3=Anne Mullin Burnham|title=A Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650–1900|year=2006|publisher=Four Courts|pages=1351–2}} Elizabeth and her daughters supported the work of Ellen Smyly, an associate of Dallas, but without the backing of her husband.{{cite book|author=June Cooper|title=The Protestant Orphan Society and Its Social Significance in Ireland 1828–1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RIA8CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA82|date=6 January 2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-8884-1|page=82}} When Daniel Murray was succeeded by Paul Cullen as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, the family connection with Dallas caused Cullen to conclude that Richard Whately was concerned with proselytising.{{cite book|author=Desmond Bowen|title=History and the Shaping of Irish Protestantism|year=1995|publisher=Lang|isbn=978-0-8204-2750-8|page=302}}

During the early years of the Great Famine, Richard and Elizabeth Whately set up a relief committee, and contributed to it.{{cite book|title=A Memoir of ... James Thomas O'Brien ... with a summary of his writings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fT8BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA10|year=1875|page=10|last1 = Carroll|first1 = William George}} Elizabeth was involved in industrial school, ragged school and Sunday school works as President of a society based in Townsend Street, Dublin.{{cite book|title=The Irish Quarterly Review|url=https://archive.org/details/irishquarterlyr05unkngoog|year=1854|publisher=W.B. Kelly|page=[https://archive.org/details/irishquarterlyr05unkngoog/page/n408 387]}}

Elizabeth Whately visited Blanco White once in Liverpool, with her daughters Jane and Mary.{{cite book|title=The Spectator|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZPEwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA399|year=1845|publisher=F.C. Westley|page=399}} John Hamilton Thom, Blanco White's biographer, dealt in The Theological Review for 1867 with the estrangement from the Whatelys at length, in reply to Jane Whately's biography of her father.{{cite book|title=The Theological Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zo9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA82|year=1867|publisher=Whitfield, Green & Son|pages=82–120}}

Elizabeth Whately died on 25 April 1860, in Hastings.{{cite book|title=The Rose, the Shamrock and the Thistle, a magazine. Vol.1, June-vol.6, March|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PmgEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA35|year=1864|page=35}}{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6xI2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA642|year=1860|publisher=A. Dodd and A. Smith|page=642}} Alexander Dallas preached her funeral sermon. Her obituary in the Belfast Mercury credited her with the foundation of Dublin by Lamplight, a Magdalene asylum in Ballsbridge from 1855.{{cite news|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000784/18600430/052/0002|title=Death of Mrs. Whately|date=30 April 1860|work=Belfast Mercury|page=2|via=British Newspaper Archive|accessdate=25 March 2016}}{{cite book|author=Maria Luddy|title=Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9w7fTNJt9c4C&pg=PA81|date=13 December 2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-70905-7|page=81}} The Clergy Daughters' School building in Leeson Park, Dublin was erected in her memory.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/guidetodublinch00chargoog#page/n75/mode/1up/search/Leeson|title=Guide to Dublin charities|editor-last=Barrett|editor-first=R. M.|year=1884|work=Internet Archive|publisher=Hodges, Figges & Co.|volume=II|page=5|accessdate=25 March 2016|location=Dublin}}

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• Children's tracts.Jessica Richard, "I Am Equally Weary of Confinement": Women Writers and "Rasselas" from "Dinarbas to Jane Eyre", Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Vol. 22, No. 2 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 335–356, at p. 342 Titles mentioned on the title page of Reverses (1833) are Conversations on the Life of Christ and First Preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles.{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Whately|title=Reverses; or, Memoirs of the Fairfax family, by the author of 'Conversations on the Life of Christ'.|url=https://archive.org/details/reversesormemoi00whatgoog|year=1833|page=[https://archive.org/details/reversesormemoi00whatgoog/page/n26 2]}} Fitzpatrick states that the titles by Elizabeth Whately that appeared in 1830 were edited by Richard Whately.{{cite book|author=William John Fitzpatrick|author-link=William John Fitzpatrick|title=Memoirs of Richard Whately ...: With a Glance at His Contemporaries & Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a-GfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA237|year=1864|publisher=R. Bentley|page=237}}
• Village Conversations in Hard Times (1831, two parts) by "a Country Pastor". In the past attributed to Richard Whately.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiae05cottuoft#page/n102/mode/1up|title=Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland|last1=Cotton|first1=Henry|author-link=Henry Cotton (divine)|year=1848|work=Internet Archive|publisher=Hodges|volume=II|page=85|accessdate=22 March 2016|location=Dublin}}
• Reverses: or Memoirs of the Fairfax Family (1833), novel.{{cite book|author=Samuel Johnson|title=The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EWdcWgqTGBUC&pg=PA184|date=14 February 2008|publisher=Broadview Press|isbn=978-1-77048-058-2|page=184}} The conclusion of the story has the Fairfax family emigrating to Canada. Richard Whately wrote about such emigrants in one of his early contributions to the Quarterly Review.{{cite book|author=Richard Whately|title=Miscellaneous Lectures and Reviews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4e02AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA211|year=1861|publisher=Parker, Son, and Bourn|page=211|isbn=9780598849564}} Mary Charlotte Mair Simpson, daughter of Nassau William Senior, attributes the tale "Norval" in this work to Richard Whately.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/manymemoriesofma00simpiala#page/19/mode/1up|title=Many Memories of Many People|last1=Simpson|first1=M. C. M.|year=1898|work=Internet Archive|publisher=Edward Arnold|page=19|accessdate=25 March 2016|location=London}}
• The Second Part of the History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1835, R. Fellowes), a continuation of Rasselas, intended as children's literature.Jessica Richard, "I Am Equally Weary of Confinement": Women Writers and "Rasselas" from "Dinarbas to Jane Eyre", Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Vol. 22, No. 2 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 335–356, at pp. 336, 350 and 353 note 6 It was first published in 1834 in a collection edited by Lady Mary Fox. This work was neglected until a 1950 article by Robert Metzdorf.{{cite book|author=Edward Tomarken|title=Johnson, Rasselas, and the Choice of Criticism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yrQfBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11|date=5 February 2015|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-6177-8|page=11}} According to Richard, Whately "draws characters confident that Christian order will eventually spread over the globe."{{cite book|author=Samuel Johnson|title=The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EWdcWgqTGBUC&pg=PA29|date=14 February 2008|publisher=Broadview Press|isbn=978-1-77048-058-2|page=29}} The same collection contained Atmos the Giant by Blanco White, inspired by his 1832 journey on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and passed to Elizabeth Whately.{{cite book|author=Martin Murphy|title=Blanco White: Self-banished Spaniard|year=1989|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-04458-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/blancowhiteselfb00murp/page/158 158]|url=https://archive.org/details/blancowhiteselfb00murp/page/158}}{{cite book|author=John Hamilton Thom|author-link=John Hamilton Thom|title=The Life of the Rev. Joseph Blanco White: Written by Himself; with Portions of His Correspondence|url=https://archive.org/details/a614070801whituoft|year=1845|publisher=J. Chapman|page=[https://archive.org/details/a614070801whituoft/page/n511 486]}}

A Guide to Irish Fiction comments on the gap to 1854 in Elizabeth Whately's production of fiction after this work. She edited Thoughts of a Parent on Education, by the Late Mrs Richard Trench (1837) by the late Melesina Trench.{{cite book|title=Memorials of the Life and Character of Lady Osborne and Some of Here Friends: Edited by Her Daughter Mrs. Osborne Catherine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7KNSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA209|year=1870|publisher=Hodges, Forster & Company|volume=2|page=209}} Egerton Ryerson gained the impression from Richard Whately, around 1845, that the Irish Education Board's standard texts for religious instruction were written by him and his wife; but that was incorrect.{{cite book|author=Donald H. Akenson|title=Being Had: Historians, Evidence, and the Irish in North America|year=1985|publisher=P. D. Meany|isbn=978-0-88835-014-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/beinghadhistoria0006aken/page/182 182]|url=https://archive.org/details/beinghadhistoria0006aken/page/182}} The 1845 edition of Tales of the Genii by James Ridley, appearing under Richard Whately's name, is attributed to Elizabeth. The Light and the Life (1850) is also attributed to Elizabeth.{{cite book|author1=Richard Whately|author2=Elizabeth Jane Whately|title=Life and Correspondence of Richard Whately, D.D.: Late Archbishop of Dublin|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeandcorrespo00whatgoog|year=1866|publisher=Longmans, Green|pages=[https://archive.org/details/lifeandcorrespo00whatgoog/page/n492 472]–3}}

• English Life, social and domestic, in the middle of the nineteenth century, considered in reference to our position as a community of professing Christians (1847, B. Fellowes){{cite book|author=Mrs. Elizabeth Pope Whately|title=English Life, social and domestic, in the middle of the nineteenth century, considered in reference to our position as a community of professing Christians. By the author of "Reverses" [Mrs. E. Whately].|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V2JiAAAAcAAJ|year=1847|publisher=B. Fellowes, Ludgate Street}}
• Lectures on Scripture Parables (1854), "with the Correction and Supervision of Dr. Whately"{{cite book|title=Memoirs of Richard Whately|url=https://archive.org/details/a581759702fitzuoft|year=1864|publisher=Richard Bentley|page=[https://archive.org/details/a581759702fitzuoft/page/n316 311]}}
• Quicksands on Foreign Shores (1854), as "Great Truths Popularly Illustrated" No.1, edited by "the author of English Life social and domestic", published by Blacader & Co., London.
• The Roving Bee: or, A Peep into Many Hives (1855), given as edited by, and attributed to, Whately.{{cite book|author=Peter G. Beidler|title=The Roving Bee: Or, A Peep Into Many Hives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TFc5rU6r9qAC&pg=PR9|publisher=Coffeetown Press|isbn=978-1-60381-062-3|pages=ix–xi|date=2010-04-18}} A plot summary from a review in The Governess from 1855: "The heroine is, by "unforeseen circumstances," induced to become a governess, in order that her brother may receive a college education."

The Zoist volume XXV contained an account of blindness cured by mesmerism, written at the end of 1848 by "E. W."{{cite book|title=The Zoist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dRe0oIcdIDkC&pg=PA80|year=1850|publisher=H. Baillière|pages=80–5}} In The Zoist, in 1850, Eliza Wallace indicated that she had knowledge of the blindness cure, associated with Elizabeth Whately, by means of a letter Whately sent to friends in Cheltenham. Wallace promoted mesmerism, with Joseph Clinton Robertson who edited the Mechanics' Magazine, and using the blindness case with the editor of the Family Herald.{{cite book|title=The Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology & Mesmerism, and Their Applications to Human Welfare ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2kwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA199|year=1850|publisher=H. Bailliére|pages=199–201}} The author's identity was again given in The Zoist in 1852 as Elizabeth Whately.{{cite book|title=The Zoist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J0DKte2VwYYC&pg=PA312|year=1853|publisher=H. Baillière|page=312}} John Elliotson claimed Richard Whately as a supporter of mesmerism.{{cite book|title=The Zoist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J0DKte2VwYYC&pg=PA311|year=1853|publisher=H. Baillière|pages=311–2}}

Richard and Elizabeth Whateley had four daughters and a son, including:{{cite ODNB|id=59106|title=Whately, (Elizabeth)|first=L. E.|last=Lauer}}

• (Elizabeth) Jane Whately (1822–1893), a religious author;
• Edward William Whately, a cleric;{{cite book|author=John Nichols|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CqvPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA313|year=1849|publisher=E. Cave|page=313}}
• Mary Louisa Whately (1824–1889), a medical missionary in Egypt;{{cite book|author=Laura Lynn Windsor|title=Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtZtkf35CF0C&pg=PA214|year=2002|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-392-6|page=214}}
• Henrietta, who married in 1848 Charles Brent Wale, a barrister, son of Sir Charles Wale;{{acad|id=WL836CB|name=Wale, Charles Brent}}{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Jane Whately|title=Life and Correspondence of Richard Whately, D.D.: Late Archbishop of Dublin|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.54745|year=1866|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.54745/page/n484 472]}}
• The youngest daughter Blanche, friend of Mary Rosse, married George Wale R.N., brother of Charles Brent Wale, in 1859, and died in March 1860.{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Jane Whately|title=Life and Correspondence of Richard Whately, D.D.: Late Archbishop of Dublin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eqM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA381|year=1866|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company|volume=2|page=381}}{{cite book|author=R. Charles Mollan|title=William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse: Astronomy and the Castle in Nineteenth-Century Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYU8CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86|date=17 July 2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-9144-5|page=86}}

A Guide to Irish Fiction states that there was a second son.

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• {{cite web|url=https://lambethpalacelibrary.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/elizabeth-whately-1795-1860/|title=Elizabeth Whately 1795-1860 – A Monument of Fame|work=WordPress.com|date=26 February 2016|accessdate=22 March 2016}}
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