J E Panton

Jane Ellen Panton (or Jane Ellen Frith Panton) was an English writer. Panton was born as Jane Ellen Frith in Regent's Park in 1847. Her father, William Powell Frith, was a successful painter, and Panton claims he had little interest in his children. After her mother, Isabelle Jane, died in 1880, she discovered her father had a lover and more children. At this point, her father marries his old mistress. Panton appears as a model in Augustus Egg's 1859 painting trilogy Past and Present, which...See more

Jane Ellen Panton (or Jane Ellen Frith Panton) was an English writer. Panton was born as Jane Ellen Frith in Regent's Park in 1847. Her father, William Powell Frith, was a successful painter, and Panton claims he had little interest in his children. After her mother, Isabelle Jane, died in 1880, she discovered her father had a lover and more children. At this point, her father marries his old mistress. Panton appears as a model in Augustus Egg's 1859 painting trilogy Past and Present, which dealt with an unfaithful husband. She also appeared in two further paintings, one by her father and the other by Alfred Elmore. She married James Albert Panton at All Saints' Church in Kensington on August 10, 1869. Her husband was a partner in a family brewery, and his brother's widow bought him out in 1882. During that time, she lived in the Dorset market town of Wareham, which was featured in her 1909 memoir, Fresh Leaves And Green Pastures, the domestic print run of which was destroyed in settlement of a libel action brought by local squire Guy Marston, who contested the claim that he had willfully destroyed records of the Rempstone estate upon his inheritance. The memoir, however, was published in the United States. See less