Jane_Dunbar_Chaplin

Jane Dunbar Chaplin

Jane Dunbar Chaplin

American novelist and abolitionist

Jane Dunbar Chaplin (February 11, 1819 – April 17, 1884)[1][2] was an American novelist and abolitionist.

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Jane Dunbar was born on February 11, 1819 in Scotland, the daughter of Duncan Dunbar, a Baptist minister, and Christine Fletcher Dunbar. The family emigrated to New York City in 1821. In 1841 she married Jeremiah Chaplin, a Baptist minister and son of Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin the first president of Colby College.

Many of Chaplin's works were religiously-oriented works for children, published by the American Tract Society. Her 1853 novel The Convent and the Manse, published under the pseudonym "Hyla", was an anti-Catholic novel which purported (like numerous similar fictional works at the time) to expose the misdeeds of Catholic nuns.[3] Her Gems of the Bog: A Tale of Irish Peasantry (1869) traces the lives of the Sheenan family through various trails until their emigration to America.[1] Abolitionism was a feature of several of Chaplin's works. Her Black and white; Or, the heart, not the face (1863) was a "pseudo slave narrative" about a fictional woman named Juno Washington.[4] Her Out of the Wilderness (1870) follows African-Americans Zeke and Weza as they migrate to New England.[1] With her husband, she wrote a biography of abolitionist Charles Sumner, published in 1874.[2]

Jane Dunbar Chaplin died on 17 April 1884 in Boston.[2]

Partial bibliography

  • The Convent and the Manse (John P. Jewett, 1853) as "Hyla"
  • Songs for my children (American Tract Society, 1861)
  • Fire-Light Stories (American Tract Society, 1862)
  • Black and white; Or, the heart, not the face (American Tract Society, 1863)
  • Gems of the Bog: A Tale of Irish Peasantry (1869)
  • Out of the Wilderness (H.A. Young & Co., 1870)
  • The Life of Charles Sumner (D. Lothrop & co, 1874) with Jeremiah Chaplin

References

  1. [1]
    Kavo, Rose F. (1979–1994). American women writers : a critical reference guide from colonial times to the present. Lina Mainiero, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers. New York: Ungar. ISBN 0-8044-3151-5. OCLC 5103380.
  2. [2]
    Homans, James E. (James Edward) (1918). Cyclopaedia of American biography. Cyclopedia Publishing Company. p. 616.
  3. [3]
    Boylan, Anne M. (2002). The origins of women's activism : New York and Boston, 1797–1840. Internet Archive. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-8078-2730-7.
  4. [4]
    Shafer, Peter William. "The Heart, Not the Face: Race, Religion and Righteousness in a Civil War Era Children's Tale" (PDF) – via Religious Education Association. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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