Jane Soames (1900–1988), also known as Jane Soames Nickerson, was a British-born author, translator, and historian. A graduate of
Oxford University
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, she was employed by ''
The Times
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'' as a correspondent in
Paris
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and was an assistant to
Hilaire Belloc
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, author of ''The Servile State''.
[Jane Soames Nickerson, “Belloc’s Social Thought,” The University of Bookman, Vol. 21, No. 2, Winter 1981, book review of John P. McCarthy’s 1978 book ''Hilaire Belloc, Edwardian Radical''.] Soames was married to Hoffman Nickerson (1888–1965), an Assemblyman in the 139th New York State Legislature. Soames also served as the librarian for the Oyster Bay Historical Society in
Oyster Bay, New York
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.
Works
See also
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The Doctrine of Fascism
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1900 births
1988 deaths
20th-century British women writers
British women historians
Alumni of the University of Oxford
The Times journalists
20th-century British translators
British emigrants to the United States
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