Margaret Collier

Standard Name: Collier, Margaret

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Family and Intimate relationships Jane Collier
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.
Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 1748–1755.
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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.
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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...

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Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 1755.