The daughter of James Scott, vicar of Itchin; in 1794 she married Edward Harley, fifth Earl of Oxford. Her children by various fathers were dubbed “The Harleian Miscellany.”

REFERENCES TO Jane Elizabeth Harley, countess of Oxford [née Scott]:

James Currie to Thomas Creevey, 20 January 1801 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Sir Robert Adair to Lady Melbourne, 27 September 1802 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921)

Lord Byron to William Bankes, 28 September 1812 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lady Caroline Lamb to Lady Melbourne, [1813] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921)

Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 January 1813 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Lady Melbourne to Lord Byron, 7 July 1813 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921)

Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 July 1813 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Annabella Milbanke to Lady Melbourne, [October 1813] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921)

Lady Holland to John Whishart, 17 December 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

Lady Holland to Eleanor Creevey, 21 May 1816 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte to Lady Morgan, 23 September 1816 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Maria Copley to Thomas Creevey, 12 January 1823 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Uvedale Price to Samuel Rogers, 26 December 1824 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)