A friendship only recently discovered is that with Susan or Susanna Carr
, who lived well into the nineteenth century and received JC
's commonplace-book as a legacy from Margaret Collier. She seems to have...
Textual Features
Jane Collier
It vividly reflects the liveliness and originality of JC
's mind, her interest in books (from the classics and the Bible to very recent publications), education, women's issues, family life, and in moral interpretation of...
Textual Production
Jane Collier
A couple of months after JC
died, her sister Margaret
began transcribing her commonplace-book, intending it as a gift of friendship, after her own death, to a mutual friend, Susan Carr
.
Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 1748–1755.
front cover recto and verso
Textual Production
Jane Collier
JC
's sister left her transcription of her sister's commonplace-book in her will to their mutual friend Susan Carr
(who was living in Hanover Square, London, in 1791 and who died in 1807). The book...
