Maria Jane Jewsbury
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Standard Name: Jewsbury, Maria Jane
Birth Name: Maria Jane Jewsbury
Married Name: Maria Jane Fletcher
Pseudonym: M. J. J.
MJJ
, born in 1800, was a poet, novelist, reviewer, travel writer, children's writer, and essayist. Before her death at the age of thirty-three, she published a two-volume collection of fiction, essays, and poetry, as well as another volume of poetry and volume of fiction. Widely published in periodicals and annuals, she wrote a collection of letters intended for young readers, as well as many reviews and essays for the Athenæum.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Mary Ann Browne | Mary Anne Jevons
included three poems by MAB
in her little Liverpool publication The Sacred Offering. A Poetical Annual, 1834. Jevons had launched this venture in 1831, and for the first two numbers all... |
death | Emma Roberts | She had suffered from fever on the voyage out. Taken ill with a disease of the stomach Unsigned, and Emma Roberts. “Memoir”. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay, W. H. Allen, 1841, p. xi - xxviii. xxiv |
Education | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
went to London with her sister Maria Jane
in order to perfect her languages and drawing. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 14 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Geraldine Jewsbury | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Geraldine Jewsbury | The year after they moved to Manchester, GJ
's mother died. Geraldine
was subsequently brought up by her sister Maria Jane
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000. 222 Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988. 254 |
Fictionalization | Felicia Hemans | Maria Jane Jewsbury
had already begun the idealisation of FH
in 1830 with her portrait of Egeria in The History of a Nonchalant: a muse, a grace, a variable child, a dependent woman—the Italy... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | CB
's dealings with Blackwood's led to a positive working relationship with editor John Wilson
. She also maintained a long correspondence with Anna Eliza Bray
and (in later years) a shorter one with poet... |
Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | During her first pregnancy, SC
received frequent visits from friends Joanna Baillie
and Maria Jane Jewsbury
. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989. 54-5 |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
encountered a strong female literary role model early in life, when at sixteen she summered in Wales with her siblings, staying in a cottage not far from that of Felicia Hemans
and her family... |
Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | Among women writers, in addition to Dorothy Wordsworth
, Joanna Baillie
, and Maria Jane Jewsbury
, SC
also knew Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Anna Jameson
, Elizabeth Rigby
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Harriet Martineau |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
's correspondents included Maria Jane Jewsbury
and Mary Ann Lamb
. She was very close to Coleridge
, who settled at Greta Hall near Keswick to be near the Wordsworths at Grasmere in June... |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
's literary correspondents and friends included Grace Aguilar
, Joanna Baillie
(whose Beacon she recalled reading when very young), and Mary Howitt
. Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843. 238 Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley, 1836. I: 145 |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | The connection between the male and the female poet was made by Maria Jane Jewsbury
, who was a good friend of the family, Dora Wordsworth
especially. Hemans brought one of her sons on the... |
Literary responses | Jane Austen | JA
's early admirers among her fellow women writers constituted a small, select band. They included Sarah Harriet Burney
, Anne Grant
, Mary Ann Kelty
, Maria Callcott
, Maria Jane Jewsbury
, Harriet Martineau |
Literary responses | Caroline Bowles | The Gentleman's Magazine's obituary for Bowles recalled that Chapters on Churchyardscontributed materially to establish her literary reputation and also showed powers of narrative fitting her for a popular and profitable branch of composition... |
Timeline
February 1930
D. B. Wyndham Lewis
and Charles Lee
published The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse, which includes bad poetry by John Dryden
, John Keats
, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
along with other canonical figures.