Eliza Meteyard (1816–79)

Author. Contributed fiction and social articles to numerous periodicals under the pen-name Silverpen. Her novels include Struggles for fame (1845). An active member of the Whittington Club from 1846. Published a number of works about the Wedgwoods including a two-volume life of Josiah Wedgwood I (1865–6), and The Wedgwood handbook (1875).