ABSTRACT
Mrs Jane Ellen Panton (1848–1923) was the daughter of the artist William Powell Frith. She married businessman James Albert Panton. She was a journalist and author who worked between 1881 and 1900 on The Lady’s Pictorial, and wrote thirty-three books between 1887 and 1923, publishing novels as well as tracts on domestic and furnishing topics. These included From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for Young Householders (1887) Nooks and Corners; being the Companion Volume to “From Kitchen to Garret” (1889), Homes of Taste: Economical Hints (1890), Within Four Walls: A Handbook for Invalids (1893) and Suburban Residences and How to Circumvent Them (1896). Some of these were very successful, with From Kitchen to Garret, going through eleven editions in a decade. The bath-room should be papered with a pretty tiled patterned paper, which should be sized and varnished; this prevents the steam from spoiling the paper as speedily as it otherwise would.
