Jane Ellen Panton
| Jane Ellen Panton | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
18 October 1847 Regents Park |
| Died |
13 May 1923 Bloomsbury |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Known for | writing |
| Spouse(s) | James Albert Panton |
| Children | five |
Jane Ellen Panton or Jane Ellen Frith Panton; Jane Ellen Frith (18 October 1847 – 13 May 1923) was a British writer.
Life
Panton was born as Jane Ellen Frith in Regents Park in 1847. Her father, William Powell Frith was a very successful painter and Panton reports that he showed very little interest in his children. After her mother, Isabelle Jane, died in 1880 she found out that her father had a mistress and more children. At this point her father married his former mistress.
Panton appeared as a model in the 1859 painting trilogy Past and Present by Augustus Egg which coincidentally deals with a spouse being unfaithful. She also appeared in other two paintings; one by her father and the other by Alfred Elmore. Her father's house would host visits by Charles Dickens and John Ruskin.[1]
She married James Albert Panton.[2] at All Saints' Church in Kensington on 10 August 1869. Her husband was a partner in a family brewery business and he was brought out by his brother's widow in 1882. They lived birefly in Bournemouth before moving to Bromley. Panton's friend was the writer Dinah Craik who lived nearby. Pabton decided to write to raise money and she pitched the idea of articles on home furnishing to the Ladies Pictorial magazine. Panton's articles and the idea of writing about interior design was original. Panton not only wrote but found that she could earn substantial sums by becoming an interior design consultant. Her novels were numerous but "undistinguished".[1]
Panton died in Bloomsbury in 1923.
Works
- Panton's Poems (1880)
- Country Sketches in Black and White (1882)
- From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for Young Householders (1887)
- Homes of Taste: Economical Hints (1890)
- Within Four Walls: A Handbook for Invalids (1893)
- Suburban Residences and How To Circumvent Them (1896)[3]
- Leaves from a Life (1908) (her autobiography)
- A Cannibal Crusader: An Allegory for the Times (1908)
- Leaves from a Garden (1910)
Most of the Game (1911)
References
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- 1 2 Charlotte Mitchell, ‘Panton , Jane Ellen (1847–1923)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 30 Oct 2016
- ↑ Obituary:Mrs. J. E. Panton, The Times link, 1923
- ↑ Jane Ellen Panton (16 August 2012). Suburban Residences and How to Circumvent Them. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-05320-4.