Jane Roberts

Who is Jane Roberts?

Jane Roberts was an English author active in the 1830s, best known for her account of a two-year voyage to Van Diemen's Land during which she visited and described the Swan River Colony. She had a considerable number of literary and social acquaintances including Augusta Leigh and Lady Cork. During her own lifetime she was sometimes confused with Emma Roberts, with whom she corresponded, though the two women were not related. They were about the same age and they were both referred to as Miss Roberts. Unusually for single women of that era they had also both travelled separately to Calcutta within two or three years of each other.