Jane Alice Sargant (1789–1869) was a British writer who produced conservative and religious writing in a number of genres, including children's fiction, poetry, biographies, plays, conduct books, and political pamphlets.
Jane Alice Sargant | |
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Born | 1789 Isle of Ely |
Died | 1869 (aged 79–80) Hackney |
Occupation | Writer, poet |
Family | Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet |
Jane Alice Smith was born on 1789 in the Isle of Ely, the daughter of John Smith, a surgeon, and Eleanor Moore. Of her several siblings, she was closest to Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet, a British Army officer and Governor and High Commissioner for Southern Africa. She married Daniel Sargant in 1807. He died in 1826 and she became a school teacher in Hackney and prolific author to support herself. She died in Hackney in 1869.[1]
Her collection Sonnets and Other Poems contains many pro-war poems.[2] She wrote a number of books published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, whose stories didactically instruct children on their responsibilities.[3] Her conservative political tracts include 1832's pro-slavery An Address to the Females of Great Britain and 1852's Remarks Occasioned by Strictures, which inveighed against American women for not doing more to end slavery.[4][5]
Bibliography
editPoetry
edit- Sonnets and Other Poems Hatchard, 1817.[6][7]
- Extracts from the pilgrimage of St. Caroline : with notes, by an Englishwoman W. Wright, 1821[7]
Children's fiction
edit- The Broken Arm: A National School Story. 1 vol. London: S. P. C. K., 1847.[1]
- The Brothers. 1 vol. London: S. P. C. K., 1848.[1]
- Shades of Character: First Series. 1 vol. London: S. P. C. K., 1850.[1]
- Ann Ash: or, The Foundling. 1 vol. London: J. H. and J. Parker, 1851.[1]
- Let Well Alone. 1 vol. London: S. P. C. K., 1851.[1]
- But Once. 1 vol. London: S. P. C. K., 1851.[1]
- The Good Neighbours: A Tale of the Cholera in 1849. 1 vol. London: S. P. C. K., 1852.[1]
- No Lie Thrives: A Tale. 1 vol. London: S. P. C. K., 1853.[1]
- Home Tales, Founded on Fact. 1 vol. London: S. P. C. K., 1853.[1]
- Charlie Burton: A Tale. 1 vol. London: S. P. C. K., 1856.[1]
- Fireside Tales. 2 vol. London: S. P. C. K., 1857.[1]
Fiction
editPamphlets
edit- An address to the Peers of England (1820)[4]
- A Letter to the Queen (1820)[4]
- An Address to the Females of Great Britain, on the Propriety of Their Petitioning Parliament for the Abolition of Negro Slavery (1833)[2]
- Remarks Occasioned by Strictures in the Courier and New York Enquirer of December 1852 (1853)[5]
Conduct books
edit- Letters from a Mother to her Daughter at or Going to School Pointing out the Duties Towards her Maker, her Governness, her Schoolfellows and Herself (1825)[4]
Plays
edit- Joan of Arc (1840)[8]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Author: Jane Alice Sargant". At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
- ^ a b Behrendt, Stephen C. (2009). British women poets and the romantic writing community. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9508-1. OCLC 593232035.
- ^ Bratton, J. S. (Jacqueline S. ) (1981). The impact of Victorian children's fiction. London: Croom Helm. ISBN 978-0-389-20210-3.
- ^ a b c d e Macintyre, Iona (2010). Women and print culture in post-independence Buenos Aires. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y.: Tamesis Books. ISBN 978-1-85566-196-7.
- ^ a b Dolive, Emily J. "Rethinking Romanticism: Jane Alice Sargant: A Case Study for Nineteenth-Century Recovery Efforts". Keats-Shelley Association of America. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
- ^ "Sonnets and Other Poems by Jane Alice Sargant". Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
- ^ a b A century of sonnets : the romantic-era revival, 1750–1850. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-19-511561-1.
- ^ Dolive, Emily J. (2019). Staking Out Space: British Women's War Poetry, 1780–1840 (PDF).