Karen Sasha Anthony Tipper
A Critical Biography of Lady Jane Wilde by author Karen Sasha Anthony Tipper

A Critical Biography of Lady Jane Wilde, 1821?-1896, Irish Revolutionist, Humanist, Scholar and Poet

"Professor Tipper's biography is not designed as a chronological representation of Jane's Life (Melville's does that). Rather it is an intellectual biography with special emphasis on what almost no one else has given, a careful examination of what Jane wrote: her essays, her poems, her scholarship. A study of these works forms the heart of this book. Thus the reader learns of her contribution to the 1848 Revolution and her views about the role of women, for example, from her writings rather than from secondary sources and anecdotal evidence."

— from the Preface written by E. Eugene McCarthy

Published by The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.

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"…this volume continues Professor Tipper's career-long effort to recover for us a more just appreciation of Lady Jane Wilde … That love of things of the mind apparent throughout the other two volumes of letters, and perhaps Jane's most important influence on her son, remains evident here as well."

– Prof. Bruce Bashford, Stony Brook University

"… a rich source of information about the life and times of Lady Jane Wilde's family and friends. The letters rectify some of the misinformation about Lady Wilde that has been transmitted through the years."

– Dr. Sonia Burnard, Forest Independent Primary Collegiate

"Dr. Tipper has added immeasurably to our understanding of the Wilde family, and in particular, of Lady Jane Wilde. Her meticulous research and painstaking translation of Lady Wilde's nearly indecipherable script has added a depth of knowledge."

– Prof. Mary A. Trottier, Nichols College