Elizabeth Cooper

Elizabeth Cooper or Elizabeth Price ( 1698 – 1761) was an English actress, playwright, and editor. She is known for creating an early collection of poetry.

Life Elizabeth Price is thought to have been born in the year 1698 or before. She was brought up in Westminster after her father died and her mother was left a pauper. On 25 February 1722, she married John Cooper, a Covent Garden auctioneer specialising in Art and books. After her husband died in 1729, she became an actress and later a playwright. When the theatrical business took a downturn, she turned her hand to other writing. She achieved this by contacting the family of artists

Works The Rival Widows: or, Fair Libertine (1735, Covent Garden) The Nobleman (1736, Haymarket) The Muses' library [edited Cooper]. 1737.