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Jane Dalton

1742 – 1817 English, French Main: Guildford Other: Dorking , London , Paris scientist translator Jane Dalston (wikidata)

Contributions

  1. Paul & Mary, an Indian story translation translator

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Very scant biographical details. Her father served from 1714 as Gentleman Yeoman of the (Royal) Wine Cellar. She was adopted by her cousin Daniel Malthus (father of the better known economist, Thomas, of population growth fame) after she was orphaned in the 1750s and became a keen botanist.

She probably translated the Marquis d'Ermenonville, De la composition des paysages' (1777) as an 'Essay on Landscape' (1783) with a 55-page 'translator's' preface, probably written by Daniel Malthus.

See Liam Sims, '"Remarks on books profound": the library of Jane Dalton' (Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, vol.16, no.1, 2016). https://www.jstor.org/stable/26626348