"Bess Kent is an enigmatic figure. We know she wrote voluminous letters, in which she laid her heart bare, but few have survived. We know that she wrote at least three books — two about flowers and trees and one for children, and that she planned to write another — but we know little about how she conducted her research, or how long these books took her to write. In the late 1810s and early 1820s she attempted to wean herself off , but there is little to indicate when she first developed this addiction. She made at least one suicide attempt and threatened to make others, but the circumstances surrounding them are a matter of conjecture."
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Elizabeth Kent (writer)
1790 – 1861
Elizabeth "Bess" Kent (1790–1861) was an English botanical and horticultural writer, noteworthy as a member of the . Her best known work, Flora Domestica (1823), quoted extensively from and , who was her brother-in-law.
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