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Jane Margaret Strickland

1800–1888

A prolific 19th-century English writer, she is best remembered for historical and biographical works shaped by a strong interest in women’s lives and the past. She was part of the literary Strickland family, whose books helped bring history to a wide popular audience.

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Adonijah: A Tale of the Jewish Dispersion.

Adonijah: A Tale of the Jewish Dispersion.

by Jane Margaret Strickland

About the author

Born in 1800, she was one of the Strickland sisters, a talented literary family from Suffolk, England. She wrote novels, historical works, and religious fiction, publishing books such as Rome, Regal and Republican: A Family History of Rome and Adonijah: A Tale of the Jewish Dispersion.

She is often mentioned alongside her sisters Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland, who were also well-known authors. While some of the family’s fame centered on those siblings, Jane Margaret Strickland built a substantial body of work of her own and contributed to the family’s wider reputation for accessible, engaging historical writing.

She died in 1888. Reliable image sources located during this search did not show a clear portrait of her, so no profile image is included here.