Eliza Rennie

Eliza Rennie or Mrs. Eliza Walker was probably born 17 May 1813, although her exact birth date is uncertain, and her death date was sometime after 30 Mar 1869, when she was awarded £25 by the Royal Literary Fund, was a minor Scottish romantic/gothic short story author and published an autobiographical two-volume work of literary gossip Traits of Character: being Twenty-Five Years' Literary and Personal Recollections, by a Contemporary. She was most notable for writing about her friendship with Mary Shelley and her contemporaries, including meetings with such notables as the Duke of Wellington.
Biography
Mary Shelley's biographer, Emily W. Sunstein claims that Eliza was born to the famous engineering family Rennie, but this seems improbable and no corroborating evidence has been found. However, Sunstein's claim that "the literary Lord Dillon Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon, (one of the early patrons about whom Eliza wrote extensively in...