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Jane Timbury

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'''Jane Timbury''' (date of birth unknown, died c. 1792), was an English novelist and poet whose books were published between 1770 and 1791.

Her novel ''The Male-coquette'' (1770) appeared anonymously, but was republished in 1788 as ''The Male Coquet'' with Timbury’s name added to the title page.<ref>Madeleine Blondel, "Eighteenth-Century Novels Transformed: Pirates and Publishers" in ''The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America'',
Vol. 72, No. 4 (Fourth Quarter, 1978), pp. 527-541</ref> It has been called an attempt to bring together various strains and resolve them into a new ideal of husband and gentleman.<ref> Shelley King, Yaël Rachel Schlick, ''Refiguring the Coquette: Essays on Culture and Coquetry'' (Associated University Press, 2008), [https://ift.tt/2Bq6kO4 p. 152]</ref>

Timbury’s ''The story of Le Fevre, from the works of Mr. Sterne'' (1787) attempted to increase the drama of [[Laurence Sterne]]'s work by putting it into verse, but has been judged to “contort Tristram’s spontaneous profession of whimsicality into pedestrian metre and verse”.<ref> Mary-Celine Newbould, ''Adaptations of Laurence Sterne's Fiction: Sterneana, 1760–1840'' (Routledge, 2016), [https://ift.tt/3gfO6xG p. 87]</ref> Her book of verse, ''The History of Tobit'', self-published in 1787, included a long list of subscribers, among whom were [[Samuel Arnold (composer)|Samuel Arnold]] and [[Jeremy Bentham]]. A Mr Timbury, of [[Dummer]], subscribed for ten copies.<ref> ''The History of Tobit; a Poem. With Other Poems on Various Subjects'' (Westminster: The Author, 1787), [https://ift.tt/31wAidZ p. ix]</ref>

She may be the Jane Timbury of [[Fetter Lane]] whose burial on 25 January 1792 is recorded at St Andrew’s Church, [[Camden Town|Camden]].<ref>Camden St Andrew, Holborn, Register of Burials, [https://ift.tt/2ZtWfaM January 1792], at ancestry.co.uk, accessed 1 July 2020 </ref>

==Selected works==
* ''The Male-coquette: Or, the History of the Hon. Edward Astell'' (London: G. Robinson and J. Roberts, 1770, new edition by Gale ECCO Print Editions, 2010 )
* ''The History of Tobit; a Poem. With Other Poems on Various Subjects'' (Westminster: The Author, 1787)
* ''The story of Le Fevre, from the works of Mr. Sterne. Put into verse by Jane Timbury'' (London, 1787; new edition by Gale ECCO Print Editions, 2010 )
*''The Triumph of Friendship; or, The History of Charles Courtney and Miss Julia Melville'' (Westminster: James Fox, 1789)
*''The Philanthropic Rambler, etc.'' (London: J. Timbury, J. Southern, & W. Nicoll, 1790)
*''A Sequel to the Philanthropic Rambler'' (London: [[George Robinson (bookseller)|G.G.J. & J. Robinson]], R. Faulder, J. Southern, 1791)
==Notes==


==External links==
*[https://ift.tt/2ZtWgLS Jane Timbury, Preface in The History of Tobit (1788)] at vt.edu
[[Category:English women novelists]]
[[Category:18th-century novelists]]


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