Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Jane Johnson
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Standard Name: Johnson, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Russell
, an eighteenth-century country clergyman's wife, published nothing, but she used her writing to examine the meaning of her life and to confront its problems. She left letters (which incorporate poetry, fiction, and a dream-vision), notebooks, more poems, religious musings, stories for her children including the earliest known original fairy-tale in English, and a set of ingenious teaching aids known as a nursery library.
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Johnson, Jane, and Gillian Avery. A Very Pretty Story. Bodleian Library, 2001.