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Jane Barker
Jane Barker (1652-1732) was a popular fiction writer, poet, and a staunch Jacobite. She went into self-imposed exile when James II fled England to Saint-Germain-en-Laye when William of Orange threatened the English throne during the Glorious Revolution in 1688.〔Wilson, xxv〕 Her novels, ''The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia'', also published as ''Love Intrigues'' (1713), ''Exilius'' or ''The Banish'd Roman'' (1715), ''A Patchwork Screen for the Ladies'' (1723), and ''The Lining of the Patchwork Screen for the Ladies'' (1726) were written after she returned to London from Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1704. Prior to and during her exile, she wrote a collection of poems justifying the value of feminine education and female single life, "Poetical Recreations" (1688),〔Mello, 2015〕 and a group of political poems, "A Collection of Poems Referring to the Times" (1701), which conveyed her anxiety towards the political future of England.〔
Although not commonly praised for her letter writing, there are four extant letters found in the British Library and within the Magdalen Manuscript at the Oxford Magdalen library, written between 1670-88.〔Pickard〕 Jane Barker was one of the first female authors to publish writings both in manuscript and print form, allowing modern scholars to study "the passage of Barker's poetry from coterie circles to larger, more impersonal communities of readers"〔''Jane Barker, Exile'', 4-5〕 Jane Barker died quietly in 1732, with only two rectors signing her death certificate.〔Wilson, xxxi〕
== Early life ==
Jane Barker was born in May 1652, in the village of Blatherwick, Northamptonshire in England to Thomas Barker and Anne Connock.〔King, Kathryn R., 2004〕 Anne Connock seems to be descended from an unlanded and Roman Catholic branch of the Connock family, explaining Jane's Papist affiliation and condemnation after she returns from exile.〔King, Kathryn R.〕 When Jane was 10 years old, Thomas Barker leased a property and manor in Wilsthorp, Lincolnshire. This property was to be bequeathed to both Jane Barker and her mother upon her father's death in 1681〔 and she returned to the property upon returning from exile in 1704.〔''Jane Barker, Exile'', 13〕 A member of a royalist family, Jane Barker went into exile with James II once William of Orange entered England, threatening an overthrow of the outwardly Catholic James II.〔''Jane Barker, Exile'', 11〕
As a young woman, Jane Barker was taught Latin, anatomy, and herbal medicine by her brother, Edward, who matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford in 1668 and earned his M.A. from Christ Church, Oxford in 1674-5.〔Wilson, xix〕 There is some proof of Jane Barker's tutelage in medicine coming to fruition with ''Dr. Barker's Famous Gout Plaister,'' and within her poems discussing anatomy found in her "Poetical Recreations".〔Wilson, xxiv〕 Indebted to her brother for providing her with the basis of her education, Jane mourned his death in 1675, shortly after he finished his time at the University of Oxford.〔
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