The Corvey Novels Project at the University of Nebraska
— Studies in British Literature of the Romantic Period —
Biographical Sketch of Jane Harvey, with particular relevance to The Castle of Tynemouth
Jane Harvey (1776-?)
There appears to be little available information about Jane Harvey. She
was born in 1776, but nothing seems to be known about her death. She was
a poet and novelist and apparently from Tyneside, near the Tyne River. Her
parents were Elizabeth and Lawrence H. of Barnard Castle. She was influenced
by Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward, and Helen Maria Williams. She wrote of
women, politics, gothic castles, history, and children's verses. All of
her novels were written anonymously. She may have been related to a poet
named Margaret H. who also ran a boarding school in Bishopswearmouth.
Source:
Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, eds. The Feminist companion to literature in English: women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. New Haven: Yale UP, 1990. P. 497.
- Prepared by Calli Lounsbury, University of Nebraska, December 2002.