Daughter of Oliver Jones of Oxford, and sister of Revd Oliver Jones, Chanter of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Despite her modest social position and financial circumstances (she was probably a governess) had several aristocratic friends. Friend of Dr Johnson, who used to quote Il Penseroso at her: ‘Chauntress oft the woods among, I woo …’; Thomas Warton said, ‘She was a very ingenious poetess … and, on the whole, was a most sensible, agreeable, and amiable woman’. Her volume of poems lists some 1,504 subscribers, beginning with the Prince of Orange and ranging through Christopher Smart, Horace Walpole, David Garrick, and well-nigh innumerable aristocrats, dons, clergymen, lawyers and Joneses.
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (Oxford, 1750).