Jane Stirling

Portrait of Jane Stirling by Achille Devéria

Jean ("Jane") Wilhelmina Stirling[1][2] (15 July 1804 – 6 February 1859) was a Scottish amateur pianist who is best known as a student and later friend of Frédéric Chopin, who dedicated Nocturnes, Op. 55 to her. She took him on a tour of England and Scotland in 1848, and took charge of the disposal of his effects and manuscripts after his death in 1849.

  1. ^ Dewar, Peter Beauclerk (7 August 2001). Burke's Landed Gentry the Kingdom in Scotland. Burke's Peerage and Gentry. p. 14. ISBN 9780971196605. Retrieved 7 August 2020 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Clan Stirling's own genealogy" (PDF). Clanstirling.org. Retrieved 7 August 2020.