The daughter of the writer Eliza Fenwick (d. 1840); she performed as an actress before emigrating to America with her mother, where she was unhappily married the actor William Rutherford; she died in New York.

REFERENCES TO Eliza Ann Fenwick:

Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 2 January 1810 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 18 September 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Charles Lamb to Sir John Stoddart, [9 August 1827] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)