JC
's dating of a six-line poetic lament for the death of Damon (the earliest item in her commonplace-book as transcribed by her sister Margaret
) suggests that she may possibly have lost an actual, unidentified lover.
Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 1748–1755.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Collier
JC
was closely associated all her life with her younger sister, Margaret
.
Textual Features
Sarah Fielding
It seems, from a remark by Margaret Collier
in the commonplace-book, that after Jane Collier
's death SF
worked at finishing a draft play that Jane had left, entitled The Flatterer. It is apparently not extant.
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Textual Production
Jane Collier
JC
dated the first entry in the commonplace-book which her sister Margaret
transcribed after her death.
Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 1748–1755.
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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
Margaret Collier
suggests that JC
wrote an unfinished play. In her sister's commonplace-book, she remarks on a play featuring a character who is always reading other people's thoughts (I know you think me unreasonable...