Jane Margaret Strickland

The white neck-cloth species, exemplified by Caroline Scott 's The Old Grey Church, is both upper-class and fervently Evangelical in setting: a kind of genteel tract on a large scale, intended as a sort...

Among SM 's five sisters, four became writers: Eliza or Elizabeth Strickland , Agnes Strickland (whose Lives of the Queens of England and other books were co-written with Elizabeth but bore her name alone), Jane Strickland

Both sisters were buried in the churchyard at Tilford in Surrey. Jane Strickland published a biography of Agnes in 1887.

The Pilgrims of Walsingham made money, but not very much. Only in the USA did it go into a second edition. It was perhaps this relative failure that turned AS from historical fiction (light...

ES 's closest relationship in her family was that with her next sister, Agnes (1796-1874), together with whom she built her writing career. (From about mid-century if not earlier, their relationship was regularly disrupted by...

AS left London and moved back to Southwold in Suffolk, to Park Lane Cottage, which she leased from her sister Jane .

All but one of AS 's five sisters became writers when they grew up. Elizabeth (1794-1875) became Agnes's collaborator or silent partner. Jane wrote children's stories. Catharine and Susanna both emigrated with their husbands to...

CPT finished the manuscript for Canadian Crusoes and quickly sent it to England so that her sistersJane Margaret Strickland could find a publisher.

Agnes Strickland and her sister Jane edited letters that CPT had been sending back to England, and sent the manuscript to London publisher Charles Knight.