Grizelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge (1803-1825) was a Nova Scotian poet and was known as the “highly-gifted songstress of Acadia.” She was the daughter of William Cottnam Tonge.
“Lines composed at midnight . . . occasioned by the recollection of my sisters,”“To my dear grandmother, on her 80th birth day” (Poem to her Great Grandmother Deborah How Cottnam ("Portia"), who was also a poet.)“A hymn of praise”“Lines . . . composed in the church yard of Windsor, N.S., . . .”“Extempore lines, occasioned by seeing the corpse of Mary, youngest daughter of the Hon. James Fraser. . . .”