Jane Collier

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Standard Name: Collier, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Collier
Nickname: Jenny
Pseudonym: C. J.
Pseudonym: The Invisible Girl
JC was a remarkably innovative and experimental prose-writer of the mid-eighteenth century. She produced one anti-conduct-book, one collaborative novel (written together with Sarah Fielding ), a remarkable commonplace-book (only recently discovered), and trenchant literary-critical comments. Other work may have failed to survive: she reached the planning stage, at least, with a tragedy, comedy, farce, her own periodical, a French grammar, and especially periodical essays.
Handwritten notes about a projected play by Sarah Fielding, with cursive script in dark brown ink on cream-coloured paper, from commonplace book by Jane Collier.
The upper cover of a copy made by her sister Margaret of Jane Collier's working notebook (the only such text to survive from the eighteenth century). Margaret headed it: "A Copy of My Sisters Common Place Book." Hilda Londry Collection.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
In her commonplace-book Collier (who also mentions several dramatic schemes of her own) describes Sallys Scheme for a Farce call'd / The Lady's Register or Daily Task. This was to open with a morning...
Textual Production Elizabeth Tollet
ET had required in her will that her executors should with all convenient Speed after my decease publish and Print my Writings in Verse together with those already printed by Mr Clark at the Royal Exchange
Textual Production Edith Somerville
They wrote and re-wrote by turns, and maintained (like Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier a century earlier in The Cry) that it was impossible to separate the woven texture of their finished writing into...

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