[1] Her elder brother, named Oliver like his father, became precentor[2] and senior chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford.
Jones wrote poems in private letters to Lovelace and her well-connected circle of female friends and relations.
[1] In April 1742, she was surprised to discover that one of her works, The Lass of the Hill, had been published without her knowledge, around the same time as her epitaph to Lord Aubrey Beauclerk was printed by his widow without consulting Jones.
Samuel Johnson, who met Jones on his visits to Oxford, called her "the Chantress",[4] and Thomas Warton recalled her as "a most sensible, agreeable and amiable woman".
[1][2] Her poetry is witty and gently satirical, and pokes mild fun at courtly manners, but is never vicious or biting.