of Codrus, or, 'The Dunciad' Dissected (1728). Her reputation was severely damaged by the notoriety, and she was long believed to have been Cromwell's mistress though there is scant reason to believe she was.Blain, et al., p. 1076. Later life Thomas continued to publish through the 1720s, but was unable to meet her debts and was jailed in the Fleet prison in 1727 for three years. However, she managed to put even that time to use and wrote from her cell. Within a year of her release, Thomas died and was buried at St Bride's, Fleet Street in 1731. Legacy Her publishing history is complicated and as one commentator has it, "Her few authentic works have been upstaged by the many miscellaneous writings which survive in forms probably significantly changed from the way she left them." Another commentator describes Thomas's critical reputation until the twentieth century: "The poetry - often witty and lively, with sharp satiric insights into the social predicament of women - is predictably dismissed, though part of the fate of Rosalinda in Thomas's 'The Execration' is ironically borne out by the poet's own experience: 'To live reserved and free from blame, / And yet incur an evil fame' (l. 36). Thomas's writing has been anthologized in Greer's Kissing the Rod: an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse (1988) and Lonsdale's Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology (1989). Selected works "To the Memory of the Truly Honoured John Dryden, Esq", Luctus Britannici (anon., 1700)Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects (anon.; London: Tomas Combes, 1722); rpt. Poems on Several Occasions (London: Tomas Combes, 1726); rpt. Poems on Several Occasions. To John Dryden Esq; Hen. Cromwel Esq; Reverend Mr. Norris, Sir R. L'Estrange, Lord Hallifax, Anth. Henly Esq; Sir Samuel Garth, Lady Chudleigh, Lady Packington, And Mrs. Phillips, Written by a Lady. The Second Edition. (London: Thomas Astley, 1727)Codrus, or, ‘The Dunciad’ Dissected. Being the Finishing-Stroke. To which is added, Farmer Pope and his Son. A Tale. By Mr. Philips. (attrib.; pseud.; London: Edmund Curll, 1728)Metamorphosis of the Town; or, a View of the Present Fashions. A Tale: After the Manner of Fontaine. (anon.; London: J. Wilford, 1730; repr. 1731, 1732; posthumously under her own name, 1743) R. Gwinnett and E. Thomas, Pylades and Corinna: or, memoirs of the lives, amours, and writings of Richard Gwinnett Esq; Of Great Shurdington in Gloucestershire; and Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas Junr. Of Great Russel Street,