Jane Wiseman

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As an unmarried woman, on the fringes of a London network of professional writers in the early eighteenth century, JW produced poetry and letters, gallant in tone, and a tragedy that reached the stage. After her marriage she published a volume of poetry (mostly occasional or friendship poems) before disappearing from view.

Milestones

8 March 1673

A baby named Jane Wiseman was christened at St Andrew's Church, Holborn, who may well have been the future writer.
This is the only known person of these names born during the appropriate period in London. It is still possible, however, either that the writer was born outside London, or that her birth was listed in one of the numerous records since destroyed.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

25 November 1701

JW 's Antiochus the Great; or, The Fatal Relapse. A Tragedy was published; it had recently opened on stage at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Biography

Birth

8 March 1673

A baby named Jane Wiseman was christened at St Andrew's Church, Holborn, who may well have been the future writer.
This is the only known person of these names born during the appropriate period in London. It is still possible, however, either that the writer was born outside London, or that her birth was listed in one of the numerous records since destroyed.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.