During her early and beginning years of writing, she had a natural inclination to write and to copy texts and use the vocabulary she learned in her own works. Cotterill mentions that from an early age, Elizabeth ``constantly read, copied down, studied, memorized, and repeated prayers, psalms, chapters of the Bible, excerpts from collections of biblical ``places,'' literary texts, and sermons.'' _She_ resorted to writing as an outlet from her depression due to the deaths of her mother and sister and debates with her father over her marriage. <sep>, Pronoun: She