Jane Margaret Strickland
| Jane Margaret Strickland | |
|---|---|
 illustration from her 1856 book[1] | |
| Born |
18 April 1800 North West Kent |
| Died |
14 June 1888 Southwold |
| Nationality | British |
Jane Margaret Strickland (18 April 1800 – 14 June 1888) was a British writer.
Life
Strickland was born in Kent in 1800. The daughter of Thomas Strickland and Elizabeth (born Homer) of Reydon Hall, Suffolk, Her siblings were Elizabeth; Sarah; Agnes, Catharine Parr, Susanna and Samuel Strickland. All of the children except Sarah eventually became writers.[2]
By 1840 she had two sisters living in Canada and two others who had moved out of the house leaving Jane to look after her mother who died in 1864.[2]
In 1854 Jane published a schoolbook Rome, Regal and Republican: A Family History of Rome that was edited by her sister Agnes.[3] The proceeds made her financially independent and allowed her to buy her own cottage.[2]
In 1856 she published Adonijah[1] which is an unlikely, but engaging, story about a Jewish child living at the time of the Roman Empire who eventually becomes a Christian.[2]
Strickland published a biography of her sister Agnes in 1887 and died at her cottage in Southwold the following year.
References
- 1 2 Jane Margaret Strickland (1856). Adonijah: A Tale of the Jewish Dispersion. Simpkin, Marshall.
- 1 2 3 4 Rosemary Mitchell, ‘Strickland, Agnes (1796–1874)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 May 2015
- ↑ Jane Margaret Strickland (1854). Rome, Regal and Republican: A Family History of Rome. A. Hall. Virtue, & Company.