Jane Timbury (date of birth unknown, died c. 1792), was an English novelist and poet whose books were published between 1770 and 1791.
[1] It has been called an attempt to bring together various strains and resolve them into a new ideal of husband and gentleman.
[2] 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”.
[3] Her book of verse, The History of Tobit, self-published in 1787, included a long list of subscribers, among whom were Samuel Arnold and Jeremy Bentham.
[6] She may be the Jane Timbury of Fetter Lane whose burial on 25 January 1792 is recorded at St Andrew’s, Holburn, just outside the City of London.