Jane Collier
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Standard Name: Collier, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Collier
Nickname: Jenny
Pseudonym: C. J.
Pseudonym: The Invisible Girl
JC
was a remarkably innovative and experimental prose-writer of the mid-eighteenth century. She produced one anti-conduct-book, one collaborative novel (written together with Sarah Fielding
), a remarkable commonplace-book (only recently discovered), and trenchant literary-critical comments. Other work may have failed to survive: she reached the planning stage, at least, with a tragedy, comedy, farce, her own periodical, a French grammar, and especially periodical essays.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Miss Salusbury grew up not in Wales but in London and at Offley Park in Hertfordshire, the estate of her rich uncle. Her various teachers and tutors included Jane Collier
's brother Arthur
... |
Education | Sarah Fielding | While at SalisburySF
attended Mrs Rookes's boarding school there, and was later tutored in Latin and Greek by Arthur Collier
. Her lifelong friendships with Arthur's sister Jane
and with James Harris
(with both... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | She met Sarah Fielding
at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding
, Saunders Welch
(the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery
. She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with... |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Richardson | His close friends, too, included a remarkable number of writing women: among others Sarah Fielding
, sister of his literary arch-rival, Jane Collier
, Hester Mulso (later Chapone)
, Susanna Highmore (later Duncombe)
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Fielding | SF
's important friendship with Samuel Richardson
probably dates from about 1744. In 1750 he included her and Jane Collier
in a list of thirty-six superior women, most of them his friends. Through Richardson she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rachel Hunter | Rachel, an heiress, gives her heart to a poor man whose family oppose the match for fear of being seen as mercenary. She is also something of a social rebel, a feminist (fond of gender-bending... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The heroine, Eliza Newton, is at the opening of the story being exploited as a sixteen-year-old unpaid governess by the affected Lady Wandsworth, who practises (in a submerged allusion to the satirist Jane Collier
)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | Here, under the rubric of writing only scenes of modern life and possible events and eschewing the craze for the wild, the terrible, and the supernatural, Smith, Charlotte. The Young Philosopher. Kraft, ElizabethEditor , University Press of Kentucky, 1999. 5 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane West | Marianne defends Louisa against the charge of being a bluestocking: Though her education had extended to particulars not usually attended to by females, there was nothing in her conversation to excite the apprehensions which... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Brooke | Number 128, 12 June 1755, follows Jane Collier
's fairly recent Art of Tormenting in discussing mental cruelty in marriage; it advises husbands to use some caution, since a wife can die of a broken... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Burney | FB
's dedication includes a discussion of the art of writing novels. Her final heroine, Juliet, faces even greater problems than her predecessors in negotiating the passage into the haven of marriage. At the outset... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | She supplies a kind of cast list of characters, and says she has written A Dramatic Novel Gibbes, Phebe. The Niece; or, The History of Sukey Thornby. F. Noble, 1788. prelims Gibbes, Phebe. The Niece; or, The History of Sukey Thornby. F. Noble, 1788. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | It opens with a breezy, antifeminist, adversarial Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend. The gentleman is hostile to female education and female authorship; his letter is based on one actually sent by Day |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
opens with a challenge to the ignorant, since only they might suppose her subject-matter here to be unfeminine. She combines two topics: Indian or Hindu society and English, allegedly Christian society, with special emphasis... |
Literary responses | Samuel Richardson | With Clarissa's rape and death, Richardson's circle became more critical than they had been all along, and objections from them and other readers began flowing thick and fast. The whole novel was discussed in print... |
Timeline
By February 1752
James Harris
(friend of Sarah Fielding
and Jane Collier
) published Hermes: or, A Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar.
January 1781-December 1782
The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties of British Poetry appeared, published by James Harrison
in four half-yearly numbers; it is arguable whether or not it kept the first number's promise of generous selections of work...