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.
Summary of an otherwise unknown projected play by Sarah Fielding, fromJane Collier's commonplace-book page 139, headed: "Sallys Scheme for a Farce call'd The Lady's Register or Daily Task." Hilda Londry Collection.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
Collier 's commonplace-book mentions a scheme for A Book calld the Laugh on the same plan as the Cry, but this is not known ever to have existed.
Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book.
139
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

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