Authority Cited: [Collier, Jane] Art of Tormenting
Author name and dates: Jane Collier (1714-1755)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Taught Greek and Latin by brother to qualify as governess; protégé of Richardson; friend of Fielding
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [two Art of Tormenting cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2, and one Art of Tormenting cite likely misattributed to Mrs. Barker. No Art of Tormenting cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. See Upton page for sketch by Collier.]
Author name and dates: Jane Collier (1714-1755)
Creative Commons License, National Portrait Gallery
BKG Bio-tweet: Taught Greek and Latin by brother to qualify as governess; protégé of Richardson; friend of Fielding
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [two Art of Tormenting cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2, and one Art of Tormenting cite likely misattributed to Mrs. Barker. No Art of Tormenting cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. See Upton page for sketch by Collier.]
- An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting; with proper rules for the exercise of that pleasant art Humbly addressed, In the First Part, To the Master, Husband, &c. In the Second Part, To the Wife, Friend, &c. With some General Instructions for Plaguing all your Acquaintance, 1753, London : printed for A. Millar, in the Strand; marital; prink [BKG Note: the termagancy quote credited to Mrs. Barker in the Dict. is attributed in the OED to Collier’s Art of Tormenting, 1753]
