Lucy Elizabeth Bather

Lucy Elizabeth Bather (1836–1864), was an English writer for children, known as ‘Aunt Elizabeth.’

Bather was the fourth daughter, by his second marriage, of Charles Blomfield, Bishop of London, was born at Fulham, London, on 31 March 1836. Her education, like that of her brothers and sisters, was watched, and even to some extent conducted, by their father, and she learned something of the classical languages.

On 29 August 1861, Lucy Blomfield became the wife of Mr. Arthur Henry Bather, of Meole Brace, Shropshire, fourth son of John Bather, Esq., recorder of Shrewsbury. She died at The Hall, Meole Brace, near Shrewsbury, after a very short illness, on 5 September 1864, aged twenty-eight. She possessed the happy faculty of interesting the young by apt and attractive instruction, and wrote a number of stories for juvenile readers, and a volume entitled ‘Footprints on the Sands of Time. Biographies for Young People. Dedicated to her Nephews and Nieces, by L. E. B.,’ 12mo, Oxford and London, 1860. The Introduction, addressed to ‘My dear Young Friends,’ is subscribed ‘Aunt Lucy,’ the pseudonym by which the author was best known.