Elizabeth Bogart

Elizabeth Bogart (pen names, Adelaide and Estelle; 1795 – May 12, 1879) was an American author of prose and poetry from New York City. She was published in numerous periodicals including the New-York Mirror. Rare for a woman at the time, Bogart was financially independent and wrote solely for her own pleasure, not out of a need for wages. One of her most famous poems, "He came too late," tells of a woman who spurns a fickle lover who did not tend to her.

Early life Bogart was born in New York City in 1795. Her father, Reverend David Schuyler Bogart, was a Columbia College graduate and Presbyterian minister with Huguenot heritage whose family had been in New York for generations. Bogart grew up in and received her education in Southampton, which at that time was an isolated town on the eastern part of Long Island. In 1813 the family moved to Hempstead Harbor, eighty miles west. It was there she began writing and later submitting her writing to publications.

She was also friends with fellow writer Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and the two wrote letters frequently.

Bogart died on May 12, 1879, at the age of 84. She received a small obituary in The New York Times.

Selected works Driftings from the Stream of Life: A Collection of Fugitive Poems (1866)