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Jane Margaret Strickland (18 April 1800 – 14 June 1888) was a British writer. ==Life== Strickland was born in Kent in 1800. The daughter of Thomas Strickland and Elizabeth (born Homer} of Reydon Hall, Suffolk, Her siblings were Elizabeth; Sarah; Agnes, Catharine Parr, Susanna and Samuel Strickland. All of the children except Sarah eventually became writers.〔Rosemary Mitchell, ‘Strickland, Agnes (1796–1874)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 26 May 2015 )〕 By 1840 she had two sisters living in Canada and two others who had moved out of the house leaving Jane to look after her mother who died in 1864.〔Rosemary Mitchell, ‘Strickland, Agnes (1796–1874)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 26 May 2015 )〕 In 1854 Jane published a schoolbook ''Rome, Regal and Republican: A Family History of Rome'' that was edited by her sister Agnes. The proceeds made her financially independent and allowed her to buy her own cottage.〔 In 1856 she published ''Adonijah'' which is an unlikely, but engaging, story about a Jewish child living at the time of the Roman Empire who eventually becomes a Christian.〔 Strickland published a biography of her sister Agnes in 1887 and died at her cottage in Southwold the following year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jane Margaret Strickland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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