Jane Jowitt: Difference between revisions

'''Jane Jowitt''' (14 May 1770{{Spaced en dash}}3 August 1846) was an [[Anglo-Irish]] poet and [[Memoir|memoirist]]. Born in [[Dublin]] to some wealth, she moved to England following the [[Irish Rebellion of 1798]].{{Sfn|Harte|2009|p=29}}<ref name=":0">{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/70514|title=Jowitt [née Crawford; other married name Glover], Jane|last=Foster|first=Paul|date=23 September 2004}}</ref> Due to her Irish ancestry, Jowitt was denied work upon her arrival in [[Liverpool]]. She explains in her ''Memoirs'' (1844) how she travelled by foot from Liverpool to London.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mitchell|first=Ian|url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315550398|title=Tradition and Innovation in English Retailing, 1700 to 1850: Narratives of Consumption|date=2016-02-24|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=|isbn=978-1-315-55039-8|location=|pages=61|language=en|doi=10.4324/9781315550398}}</ref>

Jowitt spent time in a number of English cities following her journey to London. She eventually settled in [[Sheffield]].<ref name=":0" /> There, she worked odd jobs and gained some notice as a poet, primarily as a writer of memorials for local eminences.<ref name=":0" />{{Sfn|Harte|2009|p=29}} Her best-known poem at the time was written in memory of the wife of "Earl Fitzwilliam", presumably either [[Charlotte Ponsonby]] or Louisa Molesworth, the wives of [[William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam]] (1748–1833).<ref name=":0" />

* {{Cite book|last=Jowitt|first=Jane|title=Memoirs of Jane Jowitt, the Poor Poetess, Aged 74 Years, Written by Herself|publisher=J. Pearce|year=1844|isbn=|location=Sheffield|pages=|oclc=10120937}}

*{{Citation|title=Jane Jowitt, Memoirs of Jane Jowitt, the Poor Poetess, Aged 74 Years, Written by Herself|date=2009|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230234017_7|work=The Literature of the Irish in Britain|volume=|pages=29–32|editor-last=Harte|editor-first=Liam|place=London|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|language=en|doi=10.1057/9780230234017_7|isbn=978-1-349-52602-4}}