Jane Margaret Strickland

Jane Margaret Strickland (18 April 1800 – 14 June 1888) was a British writer.

The daughter of Thomas Strickland and Elizabeth (born Homer) of Reydon Hall, Suffolk, Her siblings were Elizabeth, Sarah, Agnes, Catharine Parr, Susanna, Thomas, and Samuel.

[2] By 1840 she had two sisters living in Canada and two others who had moved out of the house leaving Jane to look after her mother who died in 1864.

[2] In 1856, she published Adonijah[1] which is an unlikely, but engaging, story about a Jewish child living at the time of the Roman Empire who eventually becomes a Christian.

[2] Strickland published a biography of her sister Agnes in 1887 and died at her cottage in Southwold the following year.

Reydon Hall