Jean Middlemass


Mary Jane Middlemass was an English novelist.
Middlemass was the daughter of Robert Hume Middlemass, and Mary Porter in Marylebone, London, England. Her father taught her Greek and Latin and encouraged her to write for a privately circulated magazine.
Her first works were published under the pseudonym "Mignionette", by her father in 1851. She published prolifically from the 1870s through to when her last book was published in 1910, and was one of the authors of the collaborative work The Fate of Fenella.
She died in 1919. In 2023 the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography included her, Mrs. Disney Leith, Florence L. Barclay, Gabrielle Wodnil and Bessie Marchant in new biographies of eleven Victorian writers who have caught the attention of academics.

Works

Lil Wild Georgie Baiting the Trap: a novel Mr Dorillion: a novel Touch and Go Innocence at Play: a novel Sealed by a Kiss: a novel Sackcloth and Broadcloth: a novel Four in Hand: a novel Poisoned Arrows: a novel A Girl in a Thousand: a novel The Loadstone of Love: a novel Nelly Jocelyn, Widow: a novel Vaia's Lord: a novel Two False Moves: a novel Hush Money She's Fooling Thee! Vengeance is Mine: a novel Blanche Coningham's Surrender: a tale In Storm and Strife: a novel.The Yellow Badge His Lawful Wife A Wheel of Fire Fallen from Favour A Woman's Calvary Count Reminy A Felon's Daughter A Veneered Scamp An Evil Angel Mignon's Peril Loves Old and New