Author: Jane Anne Winscombe
Author: Jane Anne Winscombe (1828–1916)
Biography: Jane Anne Winscombe was born on 11 June 1828 in Warkworth, the daughter of clergyman Thomas Cave Winscombe and his wife Eliza Maria. She never married and turned to writing fiction in mid life. After the death of her father, she lived with her mother in Edmonton, Great Malvern, and West Bromwich. Remarkably, in the latter place she became the principal of a school later moving to a school in Stroud. Winscombe retired to Salcombe Regis, Devon where she lived with her nephew, the poet and novelist John Cave Winscombe (1852–1937). She died there on 5 July 1916.
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References: British Census (1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911); Exeter and Plymouth Gazette (7 July 1916); Probate
Fiction Titles:
- Vineyard-Labourers: A Tale for Those who Long to be Useful. 1 vol. London: Seeley, 1857.
- Onward: or, The Mountain Clamberers. A Tale of Progress. 1 vol. London: Seeley, 1859.
- The Mainspring: or, For Thy Sake. A Tale. 1 vol. London: Seeley, 1869.