Jane Warton

Jane Warton was the sister of Joseph and Thomas Warton. She lost the ability to walk at the age of 18, and spent much of her life as a governess or companion; she was reportedly still alert and spry at the age of nearly 90. Her two books were anonymous publications only recently identified.

TEXT RECORDS:

1748Ode on the Death of the Author. [Thomas Warton the elder.]

PUBLICATIONS:

Letters addressed to two young married ladies. 2 vols. 1782.
Peggy and Patty, or, the sisters of Ashdale. 4 vols. 1784.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

privately educated

woman writer
poet
novelist

Rev. Joseph Warton
Rev. Thomas Warton the elder
Rev. Thomas Warton

REFERENCE:

Not DNB; not NCBEL.

Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 79 (December 1809) 1173; David Fairer, "The Poems of Thomas Warton the Elder?" Review of English Studies NS 26 (1975) 287-300; NS 29 (1978) 61-65; Hugh Reid, "Jenny: the Fourth Warton" Notes and Queries 231 (1986) 84-92; Todd, Dictionary of ... Women Writers 1660-1800 (1987).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Jane Warton:

1.	1806  John Wooll, in Biographical Memoirs of Joseph Warton (1806) 169n.
2.	1830  William Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, May 1830; Letters of the Wordsworth Family, ed. Knight (1907) 2:421.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Jane Warton:

1.	1809  Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 79 (December 1809) 1173.
2.	1810  Samuel Egerton Brydges, Obituary in British Bibliographer 1 (1810) 570.