Jean Middlemass

Mary Jane (Jean) Middlemass (pen name, Mignionette; 14 July 1833 – 4 November 1919) was an English novelist at the turn of the 20th-century.

Middlemass was the daughter of Robert Hume Middlemass (of the Westbarns of Haddington[1]), and Mary Porter in Marylebone, London, England.

Her first works were published under the pseudonym "Mignionette", by her father in 1851.[2][3] She published prolifically from the 1870s through to when her last book was published in 1910,[4] and was one of the authors of the collaborative work The Fate of Fenella.[5]

Works
  • "Touch and Go" (1877)
  • "Innocence at Play" (1880)
  • "Sealed by a Kiss" (1880)
  • "A Girl in a Thousand" (1885)
  • "A Woman's Calvary" (1903)
  • "Count Reminy" (1905)
  • "At the Altar Steps" (1910)

References
  1. Martine, John (1894). Reminiscences and Notices of Ten Parishes of the County of Haddington. Haddington: William Sinclair. p. 139. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  2. Thistle, ed. (1851). Bouquet: Culled from Marylebone Gardens. Marylebone: "Bouquet" Press. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  3. Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature. 4. Ardent Media. 1971. p. 225. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  4. "Miss Jean Middlemass" . The Times (42251). London. 1919-11-07. p. 15.
  5. The Fate of Fenella . New York: Cassell Publishing Company. 1892. pp. i.



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