Jane Collier (1714 – March 1755)[1] was an English novelist best known for her book An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (1753).
[2] Soon after, the living arrangements dissolved, and Margaret became the governess to Henry Fielding's daughters and Jane with the novelist Samuel Richardson.
[3] Richardson was impressed by Collier's education, and wrote to Lady Bradshaigh that Jane was proof "that women may be trusted with Latin and even Greek, and yet not think themselves above their domestic duties.
[7][8] In 1753, she wrote The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting with the help of Sarah Fielding and possibly James Harris or Samuel Richardson.
[4] Collier's The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting has been described as the "best-known generic satire written in the 18th century by a woman.