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| name = Jane Margaret Strickland | image = Adonijah.jpg | imagesize = | caption = illustration from her 1856 book[1] | pseudonym = | birth_date = 18 April 1800 | birth_place = North West Kent | death_date = 14 June 1888 | death_place = Southwold | occupation = | nationality = British | period = | genre = | website = | footnotes = }} Jane Margaret Strickland (18 April 1800 – 14 June 1888) was a British writer. LifeStrickland was born in Kent in 1800. The daughter of Thomas Strickland and Elizabeth (born Homer) of Reydon Hall, Suffolk, Her siblings were Elizabeth; Sarah; Agnes, Catharine Parr, Susanna and Samuel Strickland. All of the children except Sarah eventually became writers.[2] By 1840 she had two sisters living in Canada and two others who had moved out of the house leaving Jane to look after her mother who died in 1864.[1] In 1854 Jane published a schoolbook Rome, Regal and Republican: A Family History of Rome that was edited by her sister Agnes.[2] The proceeds made her financially independent and allowed her to buy her own cottage.[1] In 1856 she published Adonijah[3] which is an unlikely, but engaging, story about a Jewish child living at the time of the Roman Empire who eventually becomes a Christian.[1] Strickland published a biography of her sister Agnes in 1887 and died at her cottage in Southwold the following year.{{cn|date=June 2018}} References1. ^1 2 3 Rosemary Mitchell, ‘Strickland, Agnes (1796–1874)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 May 2015 2. ^{{cite book|author=Jane Margaret Strickland|title=Rome, Regal and Republican: A Family History of Rome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G0kNX5zU4fcC|year=1854|publisher=A. Hall. Virtue, & Company}} 3. ^1 {{cite book|author=Jane Margaret Strickland|title=Adonijah: A Tale of the Jewish Dispersion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K68BAAAAQAAJ|year=1856|publisher=Simpkin, Marshall}} External links
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