Jane Tonge Thompson

[1][2] She was "the descendant of a French Huguenot family, which reverse of circumstances had reduced from affluence to the rank of small tradespeople.

It has been suggested that she may have lost a child in 1823, largely based on her poem “On the Funeral of an Infant,” which is dated 1826.

[1] Despite his affair, her husband was apparently quite attached to her, and kept her wedding ring until his death, when he chose to be buried with it on his finger.

[8] She is buried, beside her husband, "in the burial-ground of the Gravel-Pit Chapel, belonging to the Unitarian denomination, at Hackney.

This was, apparently, originally printing for private circulation in Washington, DC, where the couple resided.

As Pishey had befriended George Flowers, a brewer in Stratford-upon-Avon, several of her diaries, as well as letters she received from her husband during the early years of her marriage, are held at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.