Elizabeth came from a very wealthy background. When she was young her mother died and her father later remarried a woman named Abby Durfee Gray. When Elizabeth was 14 she was accused of murdering her father and step-mother with a hatchet after she found the bodies of her parents. Due to the fact she had been in an institute for so long Elizabeth received almost no formal education. What she knows she taught herself or had other teach her at the institute. From someone with very little formal education she is extremely smart and crafty.