Title
Jean Adams
Date
2013-05-23
First Name
Jean
Last Name
Adams
Other Name
Jane
Active Decades
1730
Birth Date
1704
Death Date
1765
Gender
female
Nationality
Scottish
Industry
education
domestic work
Occupation
governess
maid
teacher
hawker
Birthplace
Greenock
Biography
shipmaster's granddaughter, mariner's daughter, governess and maid, teacher, later hawker, died in workhouse
Published Poetry Collections
Miscellany Poems (1734)
Anthology Appearances
Fullard, Joyce (ed), British Women Poets 1660-1800: An Anthology (Troy, NY: The Whiston Publishing C, 1990), 157, 547
Lonsdale, Roger, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, corrected softback edition, 1990), 141-5
Miller, Frank, The Poets of Dumfriesshire (Glasgow: James Maclehose & Son, 1910), 137-40
ODNB
"Jean Adams," by Karina Williamson
Secondary Sources
Davis, Gwenn, and Beverley A. Joyce (compilers), Poetry by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1991), item 16
Bill Overton, N&Q, Dec 2004
Janet Todd (ed), A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800 (London: Methuen, 1987; New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987)