# Jane Cocking Glover

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| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1789|06|14}}
| birth_place        = Doddington, Lincolnshire, England
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1876|09|15|1789|06|14}}
| death_place        = [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.), U.S.
| resting_place      = [Oak Hill Cemetery](/source/Oak_Hill_Cemetery_(Washington%2C_D.C.))<br />Washington, D.C., U.S.
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| occupation         = {{hlist|Socialite|poet}}
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| spouse             = {{marriage|{{Interlanguage link|Charles Carroll Glover (lawyer)|lt=Charles Carroll Glover|||qid=Q97705062}}|August 19, 1814}}
| children           = 3
| relatives          = [Charles C. Glover](/source/Charles_C._Glover) (grandson)<ref name="JSTOR"/>
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'''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 Hind, formerly Worsley, 1750–1834) Cocking at Doddington, [Lincolnshire](/source/Lincolnshire). The family, which included her sister Ann (sometimes Anne), and three older half-siblings from their mother’s first marriage, lived at [Holbeach Marsh](/source/Holbeach_Marsh). Just before turning 16, Jane began submitting poetry to ''[The Lady's Magazine](/source/The_Lady's_Magazine)''; six of her contributions, a pair of [acrostic](/source/acrostic)s and an [elegy](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.)<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/ladys-magazine/2016/06/22/becoming-jane-the-case-of-a-ladys-magazine-emigrant/|title=Becoming Jane: The Case of a Lady's Magazine Emigrant &#124; The Lady's Magazine (1770-1818): Understanding the Emergence of a Genre|date=22 June 2016 }}</ref>

Cocking married, on August 19, 1813, at [Christ Church, Washington Parish](/source/Christ_Church%2C_Washington_Parish),<ref name="JSTOR"/> {{Interlanguage link|Charles Carroll Glover (lawyer)|lt=Charles Carroll Glover|||qid=Q97705062}},<ref name="auto"/> a prominent Maryland attorney.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_S_NPG.2019.29|title=Jane Cocking Glover|website=npg.si.edu}}</ref> With him she had three children; the 1820 census records that they also owned two slaves, and an 1820 document notes the [manumission](/source/manumission) of a 41-year-old female slave, Fanny, "she being able to obtain a living for herself".<ref name="JSTOR">{{cite journal|title=Charles Glover: A Pioneer Resident of Washington|first=Charles C. Jr.| last= Glover |author-link=Charles Carroll Glover Jr.|journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.|volume=31/32, [The 30th separately bound book]|date=1930|pages=299–305|publisher=Historical Society of Washington, D.C.|jstor=40067450}}</ref>

Glover died in 1827, and was interred in the family plot at Washington's [Oak Hill Cemetery](/source/Oak_Hill_Cemetery_(Washington%2C_D.C.)). Whether or not she continued her literary career after emigration is unknown.<ref name="auto"/>

Sources differ on the question of the names and longevity of her children. ''Becoming Jane'' specifies Glover would go on to outlive all three of her children - a daughter, Adeline, who died at 9 months, and sons William, died at 21, and Richard, died at 29.<ref name="auto"/>  [Charles C. Glover, Jr.](/source/Charles_Carroll_Glover_Jr.), a great-grandson of the couple, specifies "a daughter, Matilda, the wife of Robert Harper Williamson, also lived to be eighty-seven, and another daughter, Mary Jane, wife of Abraham Ferree Shriver, lived to the age of ninety-four, dying of influenza in the war epidemic of 1918. The only son of Charles and Jane Glover was Richard Leonidas, who married Caroline Percy of North Carolina".<ref name="JSTOR"/>

A portrait of Glover by [Pietro Bonanni](/source/Pietro_Bonanni) was painted in 1821, and later became part of the collection of the [Corcoran Gallery of Art](/source/Corcoran_Gallery_of_Art). At that museum's dissolution in 2014 the painting was accessioned by the [National Portrait Gallery](/source/National_Portrait_Gallery_(United_States)) of the [Smithsonian Institution](/source/Smithsonian_Institution), where it currently resides.<ref name="auto1"/> [Pierre Charles L'Enfant](/source/Pierre_Charles_L'Enfant), a family friend, made a number of sketches of the Glover family; only two of these, both of Charles Glover, survive.<ref name="JSTOR"/>

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Category:1789 births
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Category:19th-century English poets
Category:Writers from Lincolnshire
Category:People from South Holland (district)
Category:English emigrants to the United States
Category:American socialites
Category:19th-century people from Washington, D.C.
Category:Women slave owners
Category:American slave owners
Category:Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
Category:19th-century English women poets

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