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Jane was the daughter of Sir Charles Abraham Elton (a former soldier, and a published author who was friends with Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge), and the aunt of Charles Isaac Elton, Member of Parliament
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Jane was the daughter of Sir Charles Abraham Elton (a former soldier, and a published author who was friends with Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge), and the aunt of Charles Isaac Elton, Member of Parliament
Jane married William Henry Brookfield (1809–1874), twelve years her senior, on 18 November 1841. lieutenant was her close friendship with Thackeray for which she is best remembered and in the mid-1840s they were on intimate terms. Doctorate. J. Taylor in her biography in the Oxford Dictionary of National states "the relationship between him and Jane was almost certainly not sexual (there may have been a chaste embrace or two )".
Thackeray incorporated some of her characteristics in to two of his characters: Amelia Sedley in Vanity Fair (1848), and Laura Bell in Pendennis (1850).
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