J. S. Anna Liddiard

29 April 1773 - 30 October 1819

JSAL was an Irish poet of the early nineteenth century, whose subjects touch on landscape, human relations, Irish history and culture, and patriotism both Irish and British. She also wrote translations and a masque.

Milestones

29 April 1773

Jane Susanna Anna Wilkinson (later Liddiard) was born.

Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Ann Gomersall, Ann Hawkshaw, J. S. Anna Liddiard, Plumptre Sisters, Mary Ridgway Stockdale, Medora Gordon Byron.

McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/.

Wright, Julia M. “J. S. Anna Liddiard”. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, edited by Stephen Behrendt.

17 August 1809

JSAL dated the conclusion of her first volume of poetry: Poems, published at Dublin with her name and the date of 1810, dedicated to her husband .

Liddiard, J. S. Anna. Poems. Hibernia–Press Office.

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Liddiard, J. S. Anna. Poems. Hibernia–Press Office.

By late October 1819

JSAL died at Corballis in County Meath. The Bristol Mercury reported her death on the 30th of October, though it mentions the wrong Corballis.

Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Ann Gomersall, Ann Hawkshaw, J. S. Anna Liddiard, Plumptre Sisters, Mary Ridgway Stockdale, Medora Gordon Byron.

Wright, Julia M. “J. S. Anna Liddiard”. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, edited by Stephen Behrendt.

Biography

Birth and Family

29 April 1773

Jane Susanna Anna Wilkinson (later Liddiard) was born.

Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Ann Gomersall, Ann Hawkshaw, J. S. Anna Liddiard, Plumptre Sisters, Mary Ridgway Stockdale, Medora Gordon Byron.

McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/.

Wright, Julia M. “J. S. Anna Liddiard”. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, edited by Stephen Behrendt.