Janey Sevilla Callander

Janey, Lady Archibald Campbell was a Scottish theatre producer and society hostess.

Life

One of three daughters of James Henry Callander of Craigforth and Ardkinglas by his first wife Jane Plumer Erskine, she was left an orphan by aged four by the death of her mother, then her stepmother and finally her father. She thus became a ward of her stepmother's relation George Campbell, 8th [Duke of Argyll], growing up at his Inveraray Castle and marrying his second son Lord Archibald Campbell on 12 January 1869.
She became a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler and produced several theatrical productions noted for their pastoral values, such as a Romeo and Juliet put on at Cadgwith, Cornwall in summer 1880 starring Helena Modjeska and Johnston Forbes-Robertson. Janey, Lady Archibald Campbell was described as beautiful, bewitching and eccentric; Oscar Wilde once described her as "The Moon Lady" with her beautiful beryl eyes.
She also wrote under the name of Lady Archibald Campbell, and between 1905 and 1914, she published articles on topics of esoterica and Celtic mythology in the UK periodical The Occult Review. She used, for instance, her contacts in the Highlands to give accounts of Gaelic fairylore.