Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Jane Warton
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Standard Name: Warton, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Warton
Nickname: Jenny
Pseudonym: A Lady
JW
tried her hand at various genres of literature during the later eighteenth century, without making any one her own. She published poetry, essays, conduct books, and a remarkable novel. She may have been an influence on the critical writing of her influential brothers. Much of her writing has failed to survive.
Her notorious nom de guerre was chosen with no thought of Jane Warton
the eighteenth-century writer, but from a sympathetic relative named Warburton (which she altered because of distinguished bearers of that name) and from...
Johnson, Samuel. The Idler; and, The Adventurer. Bate, Walter Jackson, John M. Bullitt, and Laurence Fitzroy PowellEditors , Yale University Press, 1969.
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Textual Production
Hester Mulso Chapone
Her friend Jane Warton
shortly afterwards supplied an essay for the same periodical.
The self-educated John Hawkesworth
edited and published an essay-periodical called the Adventurer, on the model of Johnson
's Rambler.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Christmas 1819
William Wordsworth
presented Lady Mary Lowther
with a little manuscript volume of poems: those by women were mostly copied from the pages of Poems by Eminent Ladies.