Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Two years later, William Ellis
began another religious publication, The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual, whose title was an answer to another popular gift-book, The Keepsake.
Chase, Karen, and Michael Levenson. The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family. Princeton University Press.
FH
also published in many of the gift books or literary annuals that became popular from the later 1820s: the Amulet, the Book of Beauty, Christmas Box, the English Annual, the...
Publishing
Margaret Holford
In October 1830 Margaret Hodson, formerly Holford, was solicited by Baillie for contributions to the ongoing series of prose-and-verse miscellanies edited by M. Corbett
and her five sisters. (The first volume, The Odd Volume...
Occupation
Geraldine Jewsbury
After her sister
's marriage and departure for India, GJ
nursed her father and managed the household until his death in 1840. As her father's primary care-giver during the last years of his life, she...
Literary responses
Geraldine Jewsbury
While some contemporaries such as Hall disliked the book, others like Jane Carlyle
(to some extent), Erasmus Darwin
, and Mazzini
found it promising.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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The scandal surrounding its content did work in the author's...
Literary responses
Mary Maria Colling
Maria Jane Jewsbury
's review for the Athenæum doubted whether Bray
's act of bringing Colling into the literary spotlight and drawing public attention to her as an intellectual marvel . . . is not...
Literary responses
Mary Wollstonecraft
MW
's posthumous vilification was followed by a long period during which her name was considered barely fit to be mentioned. Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
borrowed her title The Wrongs of Woman in 1843; Maria Jane Jewsbury
Literary responses
Felicia Hemans
Maria Jane Jewsbury
published, anonymously according to practice, an essay on FH
's verse in the Athenæum.
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge.
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Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, edited by Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University Press, p. xiii - xxix; various pages.
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Literary responses
Felicia Hemans
Jewsbury
portrayed FH
herself as an English gentlewoman who is as feminine as a poetess ought to be, but she acknowledged the gender-bending that category involved by inviting her readers to contemplate the possibility of...
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...
Literary responses
Mary Ann Browne
The Monthly Review, though anxious that publicity might not be good for the young poet or her talent, nevertheless estimated her talent highly, found in the title poem the genuine divine fire, and...
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...
Timeline
February 1930: D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published...
Jewsbury, Maria Jane. Lays of Leisure Hours. J. Hatchard, 1829.
Jewsbury, Maria Jane. Letters to the Young. J. Hatchard, 1828.
Jewsbury, Maria Jane. “Literary Women. No. II. Jane Austen”. Athenaeum, pp. 553-4.
Gillett, Eric, and Maria Jane Jewsbury. “Maria Jane Jewsbury: A Memoir”. Maria Jane Jewsbury: Occasional Papers, Oxford University Press, 1932, p. xiii - lxvii.
Jewsbury, Maria Jane. Phantasmagoria; or, Sketches of Life and Literature. Hurst, Robinson, 1825.
Jewsbury, Maria Jane. The Three Histories. F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1830.