Background
She was born at Perran-arworthal, Cornwall, on 22 October 1808, being the second daughter of George Fox of that place (see Fox family of Falmouth), and was married at Exeter, in October 1836, to Thomas Dillworth Crewdson, a Manchester manufacturer.
Career
She contributed several hymns to Lovell Squire"s Selection of Scriptural Poetry, 1848. And in 1851 published a small volume of poems, entitled Aunt Jane"s Verses for Children, which was reprinted in 1855 and 1871. In 1860 she issued a second work, Lays of the Reformation, and other Lyrics, scriptural and Miscellaneous.
After her death, on 14 September
1863, at her residence, Summerlands, Whalley Range, Manchester, a further selection of her poetical pieces was published under the title of A Little While and other Poems (Manchester, 1864, duodecimo).