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Draper, Elizabeth (1744–1778)| British woman to whom the novelist Laurence Sterne wrote letters. She was the wife of an official of the East India Company, and met Sterne on a visit to England in 1766. He fell in love with her, and described his feelings in the Journal to Eliza (first published 1904) and Letters of Yorick to Eliza (1773). |
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