1. Jane Mitchel was born Jane Verner around 1820 near Newry, County Down.
23 Facts About Jane Mitchel
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Jane Mitchel attended Miss Bryden's School for Young Ladies in Newry.
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Jane Mitchel met her husband, John Jane Mitchel, when she was 15.
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At this point Jane Mitchel was disowned by James Verner, and went to live with her in-laws at Dromalane, County Down.
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The couple moved to Dublin in October 1845 when John Jane Mitchel became the assistant editor of The Nation.
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Jane Mitchel was a full supporter of her husband's nationalism.
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Jane Mitchel aided in his work with The Nation, reading other newspapers, keeping and filing reference clippings, going on to become and editor and anonymous contributor to the United Irishman from February 1848.
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John Jane Mitchel was convicted of treason for inciting insurrection in May 1848, and was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation.
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Jane Mitchel urged his fellow Young Irelanders to fight his removal, and denounced them when they failed to come out in support of him.
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For three years, Jane Mitchel lived in Newry and Dublin, before she joined her husband Van Diemen's Land in June 1851, where they settled in the village of Bothwell.
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When John Jane Mitchel escaped in July 1853, Jane Mitchel travelled with her children to join him in Sydney, from where they sailed to America.
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Jane Mitchel feared that the isolation and life in a primitive log cabin would be detrimental to their children's education, and at her behest the family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee in September 1856.
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From here John Jane Mitchel ran a pro-slavery newspaper, the Southern Citizen.
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The family moved again in December 1858 to Washington, DC Jane Mitchel supported her husband in the Southern cause, albeit with some reservation.
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Jane Mitchel accompanied her husband to Paris in September 1860, and in opposition to some of the family, she supported her daughter Henrietta's conversion to Catholicism and entrance into a convent.
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Jane Mitchel remained in Paris and Ireland with her daughters, while her husband and sons assisted the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
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Jane Mitchel sailed with her daughters, Mary and Isabel, as Henrietta had died earlier the same year.
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The family returned to New York after the war, and John Jane Mitchel set up another paper, the Irish Citizen.
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Jane Mitchel was widowed in March 1875, going on to receive $30,000 from nationalist sympathisers.
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Jane Mitchel invested this money in a photolithographic firm she and her son, James, ran.
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Jane Mitchel died at home in Bedford Park, New York on 31 December 1899.
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Jane Mitchel is buried in Woodlawn cemetery, New York, with her plot marked with a large Celtic cross.
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Jane Mitchel was survived by two of her children, James and Mary.