Jane West

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JW , novelist, poet, and dramatist, became especially well-known during the 1790s for her novels' conservative message, in terms of both political and gender ideologies. Her less-known later work is arguably more complex and interesting.

Milestones

30 April 1758

Jane Iliffe (later JW ) was born in London, her parents' only child.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Lloyd, Pamela. “Some New Information on Jane West”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
31
, No. 4, pp. 469-70.
469

By October 1827

JW broke a long silence to publish her final novel, Ringrove; or, Old-fashioned Notions, as by the author of Letters to a Young Man . . . .
The Quarterly listed it as published in January 1828, but the Edinburgh reviewed it the previous October.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
37 (1828): 302
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 654

25 March 1852

JW died at her home in Little Bowden in Northamptonshire, in her early nineties.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

Biography

Birth and Family

30 April 1758

Jane Iliffe (later JW ) was born in London, her parents' only child.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Lloyd, Pamela. “Some New Information on Jane West”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
31
, No. 4, pp. 469-70.
469

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