Jane Margaret Strickland

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Jane Margaret Strickland
illustration from her 1856 book[1]
illustration from her 1856 book[1]
Born18 April 1800
North West Kent
Died14 June 1888
Southwold
NationalityBritish

Jane Margaret Strickland (18 April 1800 – 14 June 1888) was a British writer.

Life[]

Reydon Hall

Strickland was born in Kent in 1800. The daughter of Thomas Strickland and Elizabeth (born Homer) of Reydon Hall, Suffolk, Her siblings were Elizabeth; Sarah; Agnes, Catharine Parr, Susanna and Samuel Strickland. All of the children except Sarah eventually became writers.[2] By 1840 she had two sisters living in Canada and two others who had moved out of the house leaving Jane to look after her mother who died in 1864.[2]

In 1854 Jane published a schoolbook Rome, Regal and Republican: A Family History of Rome that was edited by her sister Agnes.[3] The proceeds made her financially independent and allowed her to buy her own cottage.[2]

In 1856 she published Adonijah[1] which is an unlikely, but engaging, story about a Jewish child living at the time of the Roman Empire who eventually becomes a Christian.[2]

Strickland published a biography of her sister Agnes in 1887 and died at her cottage in Southwold the following year.[citation needed]

Works[]

  • Moral Lessons And Stories, From The Proverbs Of Salomon, (c1820)
  • Rome, Regal And Republican, (1834)
  • Ellen Cleveland; or, The Young Samaritan, (1834)
  • James Ellis; or, A Father's Warning Neglected, (1835)
  • Sacred Minstrelsy; or, Poetry For The Devout [edited], (1838)
  • The Nameless Grave; and, The Blind Restored To Sight, (1838)
  • National Prejudice; or, The French Prisoner Of War, (1841)
  • The Planter's Daughter And Her Slave, (1842)
  • Edward Evelyn: A Tale Of The Rebellion Of Prince Charles Edward, (1843)
  • A Memoir Of The Life, Writings...Of Edmund Cartwright, (1843)
  • The Spanish Conscript And His Family, (1847)
  • The Orphan Captive; or, Christian Endurance, (1848)
  • Anne And Jane; or, Good Advice And Good Example, (c1850)
  • Adonijah: A Tale Of The Jewish Dispersion, (1856)
  • Christmas Holidays; or, A New Way Of Spending Them, (1864)
  • Life Of Agnes Strickland, (1887)
  • The Village Flower, (1938)
  • Early Lessons

Source:[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Jane Margaret Strickland (1856). Adonijah: A Tale of the Jewish Dispersion. Simpkin, Marshall.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Rosemary Mitchell, ‘Strickland, Agnes (1796–1874)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 May 2015
  3. ^ Jane Margaret Strickland (1854). Rome, Regal and Republican: A Family History of Rome. A. Hall. Virtue, & Company.
  4. ^ "Author - Jane Margaret Strickland". Author and Book Info.

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