Jane Williams

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Jane Williams, painting by George Clint , around 1822

Jane Williams (born Jane Cleveland ; born January 21, 1798 in London , † November 8, 1884 in London) was the dedicatee of several poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley .

Jane came from a family that was originally wealthy but impoverished due to the gambling addiction of the early widowed mother. She grew up in England and India and married John Edward Johnson, a naval officer, whom she soon left because of his brutality. She subsequently lived with Edward Ellerker Williams in England, Switzerland and Italy and gave birth to two children. From the couple's friendship with Percy and Mary Shelley , the poet developed a deep, but apparently platonic, admiration for them. After the accidental death of Shelley and Edward Williams, Jane returned to England and married Thomas Jefferson Hogg , another friend of Shelley's.

literature

  • Helen Rossetti Angeli: Shelley and his friends in Italy. Brentano's, 1911
  • Nora Crook, Timothy Webb: The Faust Draft Notebook: A Facsimile of Bodleian MS. Shelley adds. e.18 (= The Bodleian Shelley manuscripts, Volume 19). Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0-8153-1154-0
  • Richard Garnett: Williams, Edward Elliker. In: Dictionary of National Biography . Smith, Elder & Co., London 1885-1900
  • Richard Garnett: Hogg, Thomas Jefferson (1792-1862). In: Sidney Lee, Leslie Stephen: Dictionary of national biography. Volume 9, Macmillan, 1908
  • Francis Henry Gribble: The romantic life of Shelley and the sequel. GP Putnam's Sons, 1911, ISBN 0-8383-1566-6
  • John Cordy Jeaffreson: The Real Shelley: New Views of the Poet's Life. Volume 2, Hurst and Blackett, 1885
  • GM Matthews: Shelley and Jane Williams. In: The Review of English Studies. Oxford University Press, 1961
  • Anne Kostelanetz Mellor: Mary Shelley: her life, her fiction, her monsters. Routledge, 1989, ISBN 0-415-90147-2
  • Sylva Norman; Sylva Norman (Ed.): After Shelley: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Hogg to Jane Williams. Oxford University Press, 1934
  • Michael O'Neill, Donald H. Reiman: Shelley VIII: Fair-Copy Manuscripts of Shelley's Poems in European and American Libraries (= Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics, Volume 7). Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0-8153-1151-6
  • Joan Rees: Shelley's Jane Williams. William Kimber, 1985, ISBN 0-7183-0549-3
  • Henry Stephens Salt: A Shelley primer. Reeves and Turner, 1887
  • Miranda Seymour: Mary Shelley. Grove Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8021-3948-5
  • Paul Vatalaro: Shelley's music: fantasy, authority, and the object voice. Ashgate, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7546-6233-4

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personal data
SURNAME Williams, Jane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cleveland, Jane (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dedicated to several poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1884
Place of death London