Jane Wilson [née Penny]

(d. 1837)

LBT ID: JaWilso1837	DIED: 1837-03-29
SOURCES: DNB ["John Wilson"]
The daughter of a wealthy Liverpool merchant; in 1811 she married the poet John Wilson. Charles Macfarlane described her as “kind-hearted, sonsie, thoroughly Scottish.”
REFERENCES TO Jane Wilson [née Penny]: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1825 Found 1: ¶ 36 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 7: 1818-20 Found 1: ¶ 22 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) HARTLEY COLERIDGE Found 1: ¶ 14