Jane Dunbar Chaplin facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Jane Dunbar Chaplin
Born	February 11, 1819  Scotland
Died	April 17, 1884  (aged 65) Boston
Occupation	Writer
Spouse(s)	Jeremiah Chaplin

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

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. 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. 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. Her Out of the Wilderness (1870) follows African-Americans Zeke and Weza as they migrate to New England. With her husband, she wrote a biography of abolitionist Charles Sumner, published in 1874.

Jane Dunbar Chaplin died on 17 April 1884 in Boston.