Eliza Hayley

Eliza Ball Hayley (18 June 1750 – 8 November 1797) was an English translator and essayist, best known for having translated into English two essays by the French salonnière and intellectual Anna Thèrese de Lambert: ''Traité de l’Amitié'' (1732) and ''Traité de la Vieillesse'' (1732), published in 1780 as ''Essays on Friendship and Old Age by the Marchioness de Lambert''. Sixteen years later she published an original work, ''The Triumph of Acquaintance over Friendship: an Essay for the Times'' (1796). Some of the letters from Ball Hayley's that have survived, stored at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, will be a part of the pilot digital edition of the correspondence of William Hayley: "A Museum of Relationships", a work in progress co-led by Dr Lisa Gee.

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