Jane Dunbar Chaplin (February 11, 1819 – April 17, 1884)[1][2] was an American novelist and abolitionist.

In 1841 she married Jeremiah Chaplin, a Baptist minister and son of Rev.

Her 1853 novel The Convent and the Manse, published under the pseudonym "Hyla", was an anti-Catholic novel which purported (like numerous similar fictional works at the time) to expose the misdeeds of Catholic nuns.

[3] Her Gems of the Bog: A Tale of Irish Peasantry (1869) traces the lives of the Sheenan family through various trails until their emigration to America.

Her Black and white; Or, the heart, not the face (1863) was a "pseudo slave narrative" about a fictional woman named Juno Washington.