Surname: Bray Forename(s): Anna Eliza b. 25 December 1790. d. 21 January 1883. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, novelist, historian, topographical writer, and travel writer. Née Kempe. Cousin
of Frances Rossetti, the mother of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti. Born in Surrey.
Took painting lessons with Thomas Stothard and subsequently with his son, Charles
Alfred Stothard, whom she married in 1818. In 1822, after his death, she married Edward
Atkyns Bray, a vicar from Tavistock, Devon. Friend and correspondent of Robert Southey.
Prolific writer. Biographical information: ODNB. (SP, AC)