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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.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | It seems, from a remark by Margaret Collier
in the commonplace-book, that after Jane Collier
's death SF
worked at finishing a draft play that Jane had left, entitled The Flatterer. It is apparently not extant. Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 40 |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | In her commonplace-book Collier
(who also mentions several dramatic schemes of her own) describes Sallys Scheme for a Farce call'd / The Lady's Register or Daily Task. This was to open with a morning... |
| Residence | Sarah Fielding | SF
lived with Jane Collier
in Beauford Buildings, Westminster. Scholars differ as to whether they settled together early or late in the year. Keymer, Tom. “Jane Collier, Reader of Richardson, and the Fire Scene in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Clarissa</span>”;. New Essays on Samuel Richardson, edited by Albert J. Rivero, Macmillan; St Martin’s Press, pp. 141-61. 145 and n26 Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix Bree, Linda. Sarah Fielding. Twayne. xii Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix Bree, Linda. Sarah Fielding. Twayne. xii |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | SF
published The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last, a sequel to her first and most popular novel, with a preface which is probably by Jane Collier
. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | The Cry, an extraordinary experimental novel written in collaboration between SF
and Jane Collier
, was completed. Literary historians have differed in attributing The Cry, some to both authors and some to Fielding... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable, a remarkable novelistic collaboration between SF
and Jane Collier
, was published. Battestin, Martin C., and Clive T. Probyn, editors. “General Introduction”. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding, Clarendon Press, p. xv - xliii. xxn9 |
| 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 | 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... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | She dedicated it to the court lady Anna Maria Poyntz
. It may perhaps be the Book Upon Education Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix |
| Literary responses | Sarah Fielding | The book's admirers included (perhaps embarrassingly) the courtesan Teresia Constantia Phillips
, who praised it in her Memoirs. Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford. 72 |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | Collier
's commonplace-book mentions a scheme for A Book calld the Laugh on the same plan as the Cry, but this is not known ever to have existed. Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 139 |
| Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | Its topic was the relationship between Mary Tudor
and her sister Elizabeth
before either of them came to the throne. Jane Collier
's commonplace-book mentions a scene in Sallys Play, in which a character... |
| Textual Features | Fanny Fern | The topics covered by the Portfolio are wide-ranging, often based on incidents from Fern's life. Dark Days, for instance, begins with a husband asking his wife: Dying! How can you ever struggle through the... |
| Textual Features | George Eliot | The sketches, which purported to have been found in a trunk of old manuscripts, are humorous. One of them, Hints on Snubbing, falls squarely into the tradition of Jane Collier
's An Essay on... |
| Textual Features | George Eliot | Theophrastus is a solitary and debilitatingly self-critical character, and most of the inset sketches are dark in tone. In the fable entitled The Wasp Credited with the Honeycomb, the authorship of honey is variously... |
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