Wiseman, Jane (fl. 17th c.)
Wiseman, Jane (fl. 17th c.)
British playwright. Name variations: Jane Holt; Mrs. Wiseman. Born in late 1600s in England; was possibly the actress Mrs. Wiseman who appeared on stage in 1700; married a vintner named Holt.
Was a servant in the family of William Wright; wrote Antiochus the Great (1702), which was performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields (c. 1701), and A Fairy Tale … With Other Poems (1717); used her playwrighting profits to open a tavern in Westminster.
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BORN: 1816, England
DIED: 1855, England
NATIONALITY: English
GENRE: Novels, poetry
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