• Name: Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy
• Gender: Female
• Birth Date: 1775
• Death Date: 9  January  1827
• Occupation: historian
• Occupation: novelist

Benger was a committed writer who had little success in her professional career. She moved to London in 1802 and was immediately determined to develop a literary acquaintance. She became a close friend of Elizabeth Inchbald's as well as knowing a host of other literary figures such as Elizabeth Hamilton, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and Joanna Baillie.

Godwin's confusion over the spelling of her name was echoed by her father (known as Benjey or Benger according to the DNB and by Charles Lamb in a letter to Coleridge (see Lucas, pp. 219-21). Despite the large gap between the brief contacts (1805-1826) the identification seems likely.

Godwin records her death.

• DNB
• E. V. Lucas, The Life of Charles Lamb, (London, 1921).

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