Elizabeth Youatt or Mrs. W.H. Coates (1816 – 1879) was a British novelist.

Life

Youatt was one of four daughters born to the vet

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. She wrote a large number of short novels for the

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. Her two most notable works were three volume novels published in the 1840s. Her father was the Queen's vet and he was a suicide in 1847Elizabeth Youatt
Victorian Research.org at the age of 71. In 1851 she married the younger William Henry Coates who was secretary to the

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. When her friend the more successful novelist Ellen Pickering died prematurely in 1851 she completed her novel, ''The Grandfather''. Youatt died in 1879.

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1816 births 1879 deaths British women novelists 19th-century British novelists Writers from London Victorian women writers Victorian writers {{UK-novelist-stub