Janey Sevilla Callander
Janey Sevilla Campbell, née Callander, was a British theatre producer and society hostess.Life
She was the daughter of James Henry Callander of Craigforth and Ardkinglas by his first wife the Hon. Jane Plumer Erskine, but she was left an orphan by aged four by the death of her mother, then her stepmother and finally her father. She thus became a ward of her stepmother's relation George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, growing up at his Inveraray Castle and marrying his second son Lord Archibald Campbell on 12 January 1869.
She became a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler and produced several theatrical productions noted for their pastoral values, such as a Romeo and Juliet put on at Cadgwith, Cornwall in summer 1880 starring Helena Modjeska and Johnston Forbes-Robertson. Janey Lady Campbell was described as beautiful, bewitching and eccentric, Oscar Wilde once described her as "The Moon Lady" with her beautiful beryl eyes.
She also wrote under the name of Lady Archibald Campbell, and between 1905-1914, she published articles on topics of esoterica and Celtic mythology in the U.K. periodical, The Occult Review.
