Jean Middlemass

Jean Middlemass
Born1834 Edit this on Wikidata
Died1919 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 84–85)
OccupationEditor, novelist Edit this on Wikidata

Mary Jane (Jean) Middlemass (pen name, Mignionette; 14 July 1833 – 4 November 1919) was an English novelist.

Middlemass was the daughter of Robert Hume Middlemass (of the Westbarns of Haddington[1]), and Mary Porter in Marylebone, London, England. Her father taught her Greek and Latin and encouraged her to write for a privately circulated magazine.[2]

Her first works were published under the pseudonym "Mignionette", by her father in 1851.[3][4] She published prolifically from the 1870s through to when her last book was published in 1910,[5] and was one of the authors of the collaborative work The Fate of Fenella.[6]

She died in 1919. In 2023 the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography included her, Mrs. Disney Leith, Florence L. Barclay, Gabrielle Wodnil and Bessie Marchant in new biographies of eleven Victorian writers who have caught the attention of academics.[7][8]

Works

1889 Yellow-back cover of Vaia's Lord
  • Lil (London, 1872)[2]
  • Wild Georgie (London, 1873)[2]
  • Baiting the Trap: a novel (London, 1875)
  • Mr Dorillion: a novel (London, 1876)
  • Touch and Go (London, 1877)
  • Innocence at Play: a novel (London, 1880)
  • Sealed by a Kiss: a novel (London, 1880)
  • Sackcloth and Broadcloth: a novel (London, 1881)
  • Four in Hand: a novel (London, 1881)
  • Poisoned Arrows: a novel (London, 1884)
  • A Girl in a Thousand: a novel (London, 1885)
  • The Loadstone of Love: a novel (London, 1886)
  • Nelly Jocelyn, Widow: a novel (London, 1887)
  • Vaia's Lord: a novel (London, 1889)
  • Two False Moves: a novel (London, 1890)
  • Hush Money (London, 1895)
  • She's Fooling Thee! (London, 1895)
  • Vengeance is Mine: a novel (London, 1895)
  • Blanche Coningham's Surrender: a tale (London, 1898)
  • In Storm and Strife: a novel (London, 1899).
  • The Yellow Badge (London, 1899)
  • His Lawful Wife (London, 1901)
  • A Wheel of Fire (London, 1901)
  • Fallen from Favour (London, 1902)
  • A Woman's Calvary (London, 1903)
  • Count Reminy (London, 1905)
  • A Felon's Daughter (London, 1906)
  • A Veneered Scamp (London, 1906)
  • An Evil Angel (London, 1908)
  • Mignon's Peril (London, 1909)
  • Loves Old and New (London, 1909)
  • At the Altar Steps (London, 1910)

References

  1. ^ Martine, John (1894). Reminiscences and Notices of Ten Parishes of the County of Haddington. Haddington: William Sinclair. p. 139. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  2. ^ a b c Oulton, Carolyn W. de la L. (11 May 2023), "Middlemass, Mary Jane [Jean] (1833–1919), novelist", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.77305, ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8, retrieved 3 July 2023
  3. ^ Thistle, ed. (1851). Bouquet: Culled from Marylebone Gardens. Marylebone: "Bouquet" Press. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  4. ^ Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature. Vol. 4. Ardent Media. 1971. p. 225. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  5. ^ "Miss Jean Middlemass" . The Times. No. 42251. London. 7 November 1919. p. 15.
  6. ^ The Fate of Fenella . New York: Cassell Publishing Company. 1892. pp. i.
  7. ^ Oulton, Carolyn W. de la L. (May 2023). "Oxford DNB: May 2023" (PDF). ODNB. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  8. ^ "Shining a light on forgotten Victorian women writers". Canterbury Christ Church University. Retrieved 1 September 2023.


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