Jean Marishall

01 January 1745 - 01 January 1788

JM , a later-eighteenth-century Scotswoman, made persistent efforts to earn her living as an author. She worked on a periodical and published in succession two novels, a comedy, and a collection of letters. This last contains what is probably her most memorable writing: detailed accounts of her protracted and painful dealings, as a writer, with publishers and theatre managers who were sceptical of her market worth.

BirthName: Jean Marishall
Pseudonym: The Author of Clarinda Cathcart
JM later added the titles of later works to this designation.
Indexed: Jane Marshall
David Oakleaf points out in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography that her name has sometimes been anglicized as Jane Marshall (as was indeed done in the old DNB.

Milestones

After February 1788

JM published at Edinburgh her last known work, A Series of Letters, with the titles of her three previous publications on the title-page.

English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Biography

Birth and Family

From the date of her first publication JM must have been born some time or other before 1745.