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Author: Darling, Jessy

Biography:

DARLING, Jessy [Janet] Rolland, later NICHOLSON (1786-c 1816: ancestry.co.uk)

She was born at Edinburgh to William Darling and Patricia (Rolland) Darling (q.v.), and married John Nicholson in 1807. She contributed to Poetical Pieces, a family collaboration which includes poems by her mother, brother (Peter Middleton Darling), and “the late Mrs Home of Whitfield.” One of the poems by her brother, “To the Memory of a Beloved Sister,” indicates that Jessy had died by 1817. No other biographical information has been located. (ancestry.co.uk 22 Oct 2018)

 

Books written (1):

Edinburgh: printed for the author's family by Oliver and Boyd, 1817