Jane Jowitt

Jane Jowitt (, formerly Glover, 14 May 17703 August 1846) was an Anglo-Irish poet and memoirist, who referred to herself late in life as the "Poor Poetess of Sheffield."

Early life Jowitt was born as Jane Crawford on 4 May 1770 in Harcourt Street, Dublin.

Later in Jowitt's childhood, her father, an Irish barrister, suffered imprisonment for debt in the Marshalsea in Southwark, London. She was sent to a boarding school at Clontary, paid for by her grandmother. Due to her Irish ancestry, Jowitt was denied work as a servant upon her arrival in Liverpool. She explained in her Memoirs (1844) how she travelled by foot from Liverpool to London in easy stages. She was advised to buy light goods which she could sell while travelling. This has been interpreted as a depiction of herself as a member of the deserving poor who had suffered from misfortunes beyond her control but had strived for financial independence. She died two years later on 3 August 1846 in the Sheffield Union Workhouse, after suffering a paralytic stroke.

Works "Lines on the Death of the Rev. T. Cotterill" (1823) "On the Approaching Marriage of Queen Victoria" (1840)