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Lane, Jenny, (b1835), ladies maid

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Surname: Lane
Forenames: Jenny
Gender: Female
Date: b1835
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P313543 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P62046 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1873-1876: journals of Jenny Lane, lady's maid to Lucy Renshaw, travelling companion of Amelia A. B. Edwards, describing in detail their various trips including the 1873-1874 journey through France and Italy, crossing from Brindisi to Alexandria on the "Simla", thence up the Nile to Dendera, Karnak, Luxor, Aswan, Philae and Abu Simbel, and the return journey via Port Said, through Lebanon to Damascus, Baalbek and Beirut, Constantinople, Athens, and the Rhine. They contain vivid descriptions of the landscape, weather and peoples, and anecdotes and observations of fellow travellers and places visited.
Oxford University: Griffith Institute
J. Lane MSS 1-5
See Annual Return 2019
2
1876-2006: framed portraits (3) of Jane, her husband, George Collins, and her father, George Lane, and related documentation by Brenda Moon
Oxford University: Griffith Institute
J. Lane MSS 6-8
See Annual Return 2020
Related record creators
  Record creator Description of relationship Dates Category of relationship
1
Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford, (1831-1892), novelist and Egyptologist
1870s
Associative
2
Renshaw, Lucy, (fl1870-1880)
employer
1870s
Associative