Ratings 
  
  | Year       | 
  Rank   | 
   Edo    | 
  Dev.   | 
  Games  | 
 
  | 1871  | 
  571  | 
  1699 |  (149) |   12 | 
 
  
Rating table notes
 
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| Biographical data |  
   | Name: Gilbert, Ellen E.   | 
 
   |    Also known as: Mrs. J.W. Gilbert; Ellen E. Strong |  
   | Born: 30 Apr. 1837 | 
 
   | Died: 12 Feb. 1900 | 
 
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   | Notes: | 
 
   | The Constitution of the American Chess Association (p.14) has 'Mrs. J.M. Gilbert'. | 
 
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   | References | 
 
| Books |  
   |    American Chess Association, Constitution of the American Chess Association, page 14 | 
 
   |    Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 139 | 
 
   |    Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 129 | 
 
   |    Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (2nd ed.), page 152 | 
 
   |    van Winsen, Mackenzie, Mason and Co. VI, page 48, 115 | 
 
   |    Winter, Chess Facts and Fables, page 285 | 
 
| Periodicals |  
   |    [BaH], 14 Dec. 1872 | 
 
   |    [DCJ], vol. 8, no. 64, June 1875, page 271 | 
 
   |    [DCJ], vol. 8, no. 67, Oct. 1875, page 436 | 
 
   |    [Era], vol. 33, no. 1716, 13 Aug. 1871, page 14 | 
 
   |    [HWT], 4 Nov. 1871 | 
 
   |    [HWT], 9 Nov. 1872 | 
 
   |    [HWT], 1 Mar. 1873 | 
 
   |    [HWT], 28 June 1873 | 
 
   |    [HWT], 27 Dec. 1873 | 
 
   |    [ILN], vol. 69, no. 1955, 30 Dec. 1876, page 639 | 
 
   |    [ILN], vol. 72, no. 2035, 29 June 1878, page 615 | 
 
   |    [MCR], vol. 1, no. 2, Feb. 1874, page 53 | 
 
   |    [MCR], vol. 1, no. 11, Nov. 1874, page 453 | 
 
   |    [MDR], 31 Dec. 1875 | 
 
   |    [SoT], 30 Sep. 1871 | 
 
   |    [SoT], 20 Sep. 1873 | 
 
| Web |  
   |    Brennen, Neil R.  ['The Queen of Chess': The Correspondence Chess of Ellen Gilbert] | 
 
   |    Brennen, Neil R.  [Confidential Email from The Historian] | 
 
   |    Harding, Tim.  [Early Games of Chess by Telephone], page 2 | 
 
   |    Harding, Tim.  [The first lady champion, Miss Mary Rudge] | 
 
   |    Sarah.  [The Indominatable Ellen Gilbert] | 
 
   |    Sarah.  [The Queen of Chess] | 
 
   |    Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Obituaries], page 4 | 
 
 
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