Jane Wiseman
Jane Holt [née Wiseman] (March 1673, Holborn (?) – after 1717)[1] was a British actress, poet, and playwright. She seems to have been from a modest labouring-class background and self-taught, but very little is known about her. Her one known play, Antiochus the Great, or, The Fatal Relapse, was successfully produced at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in 1701. She is thought to have been the "Mrs Holt" whose collection of verse, A Fairy Tale Inscrib'd, to the Honourable Mrs. W—, with other Poems, was published in 1717.
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- ^ Jane Wiseman at the Orlando Project, Cambridge University Press
- Christmas, William J. “Holt , Jane (fl. c.1682–1717).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. 16 November 2006.
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- Works by or about Jane Wiseman in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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