Jane Cocking Glover

Jane Cocking Glover (June 14, 1789 – September 15, 1876) was an English-born American socialite who was also, at one time, active as a poet. Life Glover was born Jane Cocking to William (1760-1820) and Ann (née Worseley, 1750–1834) Cocking in Lincolnshire. The family, which included her sister Ann (sometimes Anne), lived at Holbeach Marsh. Just before turning 16, Jane began submitting poetry to The Lady's Magazine; six of her contributions, a pair of acrostics and an elegy among them, appeared in the poetry section of that April's magazine. Later issues contain such pieces as a response to a poem by James Murray Lacey, cataloguing the many loves of his life; other poems appeared in the October edition. At some point during 1805 the Cocking sisters began preparations to move to the United States; in June the Magazine printed two poems by "Belinda" wishing them well on the trip. That same month, Jane wrote a pair of farewell poems from London; on September 12, her sister married William Blanchard, and a few weeks later the sisters, their parents, and Blanchard left for the United States. Upon arrival they settled in Washington, D.C. Cocking married, on August 19, 1814, at Christ Church, Washington Parish, , a prominent Maryland attorney. With him she had three children; the 1820 census records that they also owned two slaves, and an 1820 document notes the manumission of a 41-year-old female slave, Fanny, " she being able to obtain a living for herself". Glover died in 1827, and was interred in the family plot at Washington's Oak Hill Cemetery. Whether or not she continued her literary career after emigration is unknown.