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Author: Liddiard, J. S. Anna

Biography:

LIDDIARD, J. S. Anna, formerly WILKINSON (1773-1819: Orlando; findmypast.co.uk)

Jane Susanna Anna Wilkinson was born 29 April 1773 but baptised at St Mary-le-Strand, Westminster, the following year, the daughter of Sir Henry Wilkinson (1749-1831), an Anglo-Irish landowner, and his wife Elizabeth Butler (1754-1826). She married the Rev. William Liddiard (q.v.), an English Church of Ireland clergyman and former army officer, on 12 Feb. 1798, in Ireland. He had studied at University College Oxford and Trinity College Dublin. He was also a poet, artist, and musician. They had two sons. Although they lived primarily in Ireland at Corballis, Co. Meath, where her husband held a number of livings of parishes and at Corballis House, Swords, Dublin (now demolished), they spent long periods in England, mostly in London and Bath. She also visited Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, the "Ladies of Llangollen." She published Poems (1810), The Sgelaighe (1811), Kenilworth and Farley Castle (1813), and Mount Leinster (1819-20). Although she grew more conservative during the war, her poems are patriotic, with an interest in Irish history and often critical of English conduct. She also held Irish Harpist evenings at her house, probably reflecting the recent revival of interest in older Irish poetry and Bards most notably championed by Charlotte Brooke and others. She died in Oct. 1819 at Corballis House. Her husband remarried in 1822 and died at Clifton in 1841. (findmypast.co.uk 5 Aug. 2020; Orlando; DIB; O’Donoghue; Bristol Mercury 30 Oct. 1819; Freeman’s Journal 5 Nov. 1841; GM Dec. 1841, 659; "Liddiard, William," ODNB 5 Aug. 2020) AA

 

Other Names:

  • Mrs. J. S. Anna Liddiard
  • Mrs. Liddiard
  • I. S. Anna Liddiard
 

Books written (7):

Dublin: printed at the Hibernia Press Office, 1810
Bath/ London: printed by Meyler and Son/ G. Robinson and J. Harding, 1811
Dublin: printed at the Hibernia-Press Office, 1813
Dublin/ London: John Cumming/ Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815
London/ Dublin: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne [Brown]/ John Cumming, 1816
London/ Dublin: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne [Brown]/ R.Milliken, 1819