Jane Elizabeth Norton
Jane Elizabeth Norton (25 October 1893 – 24 November 1962) was an English librarian and bibliographer, bibliographer of Edward Gibbon and editor of his correspondence.[1]
Jane Norton was the daughter of Henry Turton Norton, a wealthy solicitor who lived at Kentwell Hall in Long Melford.[1][2] An older brother was H. T. J. (Harry) Norton, a mathematical population geneticist at Trinity College, Cambridge (the Henry Tertius James Norton, "H.T.J.N.", to whom Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey is dedicated).[3] She was educated at Francis Holland School before studying History and Economics at Newnham College, Cambridge and studying Social Sciences at Columbia University.[1]
In 1926 she became honorary librarian to the
During the war she helped organize books for
In 1959 she was appointed general editor of the catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, though she died before the project could be completed. She was elected a Fellow of Newnham College in 1960.[1]
Works
- A bibliography of the works of Edward Gibbon, Oxford University Press, 1940
- Guide to the national and provincial directories of England and Wales, excluding London, published before 1856, 1950
- The letters of Edward Gibbon, 3 vols, 1956
References
- ^ a b c d e f 'Miss Jane Norton: Bibliographer of Gibbon', The Times, 28 November 1962
- ISBN 978-0-521-57213-2.
- ISBN 978-0-19-933392-9.
- ^ Dorothy M. Betz, 'Andre Gide in 1929-1930: An Unpublished Correspondence', Kentucky Romance Quarterly, Vol. 32, Issue 4, 1985.