Jane Mary Guest

Jane Mary Guest, also known as Jenny Guest and later as Jane Mary Miles, (c. 1762 – 20 March 1846) was an English composer and pianist. A pupil of Johann Christian Bach, and initially composing in the galante style, and which were also published in Paris in 1784 and Berlin in 1785. On 29 August 1789 she married Abram or Abraham Allen Miles, an accountant, in London. During the 1790s she taught and gave performances in Bath, including at concerts directed there by Venanzio Rauzzini, who was another of her teachers. One of the concerts was a private concert for Joseph Haydn in which she improvised on a theme of Haydn’s. She also wrote some unpublished concertos which do not seem to have survived. In 1804 she became the piano tutor of Princess Amelia, the youngest daughter of George III, and in 1806 to the Prince Regent’s daughter Princess Charlotte of Wales. However Amelia died in 1810 after years of illness, while all of Charlotte’s staff were fired in 1814 by her father. Guest remained Charlotte’s tutor at least until that time. Her husband Abram died in 1832 and she died on 20 March 1846 in Blackheath, London, where she had been living with her daughter Louisa. She was buried with