JJ
and her women friends used letters to discuss the books which each was eagerly reading. Susan E. Whyman
writes that her letters disclose three passions: for her family (her children as they grew up...
Literary responses
Jane Johnson
Barbara
and George Johnson took Vast Delight in hearing [this story] told over & over.
C., M. “Notable Accessions. Western MSS”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
16
, No. 2, pp. 165-8.
166
A member of the Bodleian
staff called this notebook an important manuscript in the history of children's literature.
C., M. “Notable Accessions. Western MSS”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
16
, No. 2, pp. 165-8.
165
Education
Jane Johnson
She was without formal education.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press.
162
She told a cousin that her favourite reading had been the Bible ever since she was a girl.
Arizpe, Evelyn et al. Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts. Pied Piper Publishing.
31
Historian Susan E. Whyman
argues that it was through epistolary...
Cultural formation
Jane Johnson
Susan E. Whyman
locates JJ
among English upper middling-sort women, below the level of gentry.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press.
163
Having married a clergyman, she was a strong Anglican
, who was troubled by the prevalence of Dissent in...
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Texts
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.