Jane Alice Sargant

Jane Alice Sargant
Born1789 Edit this on Wikidata
Isle of Ely Edit this on Wikidata
Died1869 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 79–80)
Hackney Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationWriter, poet Edit this on Wikidata
FamilySir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet Edit this on Wikidata

Jane Alice Sargant (1789–1869) was a British writer who produced conservative and religious writing in a number of genres, including children's fiction, poetry, biographies, plays, conduct books, and political pamphlets.

Jane Alice Smith was born on 1789 in the Isle of Ely, the daughter of John Smith, a surgeon, and Eleanor Moore. Of her several siblings, she was closest to Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet, a British Army officer and Governor and High Commissioner for Southern Africa. She married Daniel Sargant in 1807. He died in 1826 and she became a school teacher in Hackney and prolific author to support herself. She died in Hackney in 1869.[1]

Her collection Sonnets and Other Poems contains many pro-war poems.[2] She wrote a number of books published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, whose stories didactically instruct children on their responsibilities.[3] Her conservative political tracts include 1832's pro-slavery An Address to the Females of Great Britain and 1852's Remarks Occasioned by Strictures, which inveighed against American women for not doing more to end slavery.[4][5]

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  3. ^ Bratton, J. S. (Jacqueline S. ) (1981). The impact of Victorian children's fiction. London: Croom Helm. ISBN 978-0-389-20210-3.
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