About Jane Margaret Hooper
Lived 1818 – 1907 (aged 88–89). Jane Margaret Hooper was a British writer.
Jane Margaret Hooper (1818 – June 1907) was a British writer, best known for her gothic novel The House of Raby.
Jane Margaret Winnard was born in 1818 in London, daughter of John Winnard, an oilman, and Jane Winnard. In June 1852, she married journalist George Hooper. Their children Wynnard Hooper and Margaret Hooper were close friends with Rudyard Kipling.
In her novel The House of Raby, two lovers cannot marry due to fears of hereditary insanity. Hooper also published the ghost story "Bring Me a Light!" in the magazine Once a Week in 1861.
Jane Margaret Hooper died in June 1907 in Fulham.
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British writer
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Jane Margaret Hooper was born on 11 March 1818 in Norton Folgate, London.
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Jane Margaret Hooper died in 1907 in Fulham.
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