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"Elizabeth Jervis Porter", familiarly known as "Tetty", was the wife of Samuel Johnson.
Born Elizabeth Jarvis (or Jervis – James Boswell/Boswell lists both), her first marriage was to Henry Porter, a Birmingham merchant, with whom she had three children. The couple became friends of Johnson in 1732 (on first meeting him, she said to her daughter Lucy, "That is the most sensible man I ever met.") and Johnson courted her after Porter's death. His affectionate names for her, "Tetty" or "Tetsey," were regional contractions for the name "Elizabeth."
They married on 9 July 1735 at St Werburgh's Church, Derby/St. Werburgh's Church, Derby, where the event is reenacted annually. At the time he was 25, she 46, and neither the Johnson nor Porter families were enthusiastic about the marriage.
Her dowry of over £600 was invested in setting up Edial Hall School/Edial Hall, a private school at Edial near Lichfield. After its failure, in 1737 Johnson moved to London, where she joined him later that year.
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