Elizabeth Julia Hasell (14 January 1830 -- 17 January 1887) was a British miscellaneous writer and literary reviewer. Hasell was born on 14 January 1830 to Dorothea and Edward Williams Hasell who lived at Dalemain near Penrith in the Lake District. _She_ taught herself to understand Greek, Spanish, Latin and Portuguese and at an early age she was writing plays and later narrative poems for her own amusement. <sep>, Pronoun: She