Elizabeth Shackleton born Elizabeth Parker was an English diarist.
15 Facts About Elizabeth Shackleton
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Elizabeth Shackleton was the only daughter of her father who inherited an estate in Yorkshire.
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Elizabeth Shackleton made a disappointing first marriage and a disastrous second.
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Elizabeth Shackleton is remembered for her diaries and letters which her family preserved.
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Elizabeth Shackleton was given silk dresses and attended events locally and during "the season" in London in the expectation of making a good match.
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Elizabeth Shackleton however, decided that she would marry her second cousin Robert Parker.
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Elizabeth Shackleton's husband died in 1758 and she, as a widow, managed the estate for their three sons, including Thomas who was his father's heir.
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In 1765 she ran off with John Elizabeth Shackleton and married him in Gretna Green.
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Elizabeth Shackleton allegedly volunteered to become the wife of a wool merchant who was eighteen years younger than her.
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Elizabeth Shackleton was, embarrassingly, befriending workmen, their servants, and their tenants.
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Elizabeth Shackleton's inebriation made it difficult to keep up apappearances.
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Elizabeth Shackleton's brother had already banned her from visiting for six years after they married.
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Elizabeth Shackleton went to live at her husband's new three-storey house, Pasture House, at Barrowford where her husband physically abused her.
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Elizabeth Shackleton's family kept her journals and writing and at one time lent them to the local record office.
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Elizabeth Shackleton's book was titled The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England, for which she received the Whitfield prize, the Wolfson History prize and the Longman-History Today prize.