Elizabeth Edmonds

Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds (1821 – 20 January 1907) was an English writer active in the 1880s who wrote about modern Greece. Her focus on publishing in magazines and journals as well as in books brought modern Greek life to increased prominence in Britain. They moved to Blackheath, London, and he encouraged her to return to writing, and to learning ancient Greek. She became interested in modern Greek. Her 1892 translation of Theodoros Kolokotronis's memoirs remains the only complete version in English. She promoted the cause of an independent Greece.

Edmonds also wrote three popular novels between 1888 and 1898 which explored the tension between the creative and domestic demands on women, and the gendered expectations on them. In Mary Myles (1888), the eponymous protagonist is an excellent scholar who has to work as a governess. In Amygdala: A Tale of the Greek Revolution (1894), the lead character, Irene, counters her father's disappointment at her being a girl by fighting in the Greek war of independence.

Death Edmonds died on 20 January 1907 in Blackheath, and was buried at the now destroyed St German's Church in Blackheath.