Jean Middlemass

Mary Jane (Jean) Middlemass (14 July 1833 – 4 November 1919) was an English novelist at the turn of the 20th-century.

Middlemass was the daughter of Robert Hume Middlemass (of the Westbarns of Haddington^[1]), and Mary Porter in Marylebone, London, England.

Her first works were published under the pseudonym Mignionette, by her father in 1851.^[2][3] She published prolifically from the 1870s through to when her last book was published in 1910,^[4] and was one of the authors of the collaborative work The Fate of Fenella.^[5]

Works

• "Touch and Go" (1877)
• "Innocence at Play" (1880)
• "Sealed by a Kiss" (1880)
• "A Girl in a Thousand" (1885)
• "A Woman's Calvary" (1903)
• "Count Reminy" (1905)
• "At the Altar Steps" (1910)

References

1. Martine, John (1894). Reminiscences and Notices of Ten Parishes of the County of Haddington. Haddington: William Sinclair. p. 139. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
2. Thistle, ed. (1851). Bouquet: Culled from Marylebone Gardens. Marylebone: "Bouquet" Press. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
3. Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature. 4. Ardent Media. 1971. p. 225. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
4. "Miss Jean Middlemass". The Times (42251). London. 1919-11-07. p. 15.
5. The Fate of Fenella. New York: Cassell Publishing Company. 1892. pp. i.

External links

• Works written by or about Mary Jane Middlemass at Wikisource
• Works by or about Jean Middlemass at Internet Archive
• Works by Jean Middlemass at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)