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.
Stipple engraving of Maria Jane Jewsbury by John Cochran after painting by G. Freeman,published 1847. She is seated, holding a book or paper. Her light dress has large puff sleeves and a sprig of flowers at the bosom; it leaves her shoulders bare. She has a dark shawl wrapped around her, and a long chain necklace. Her dark hair is parted in the centre and arranged in short curls.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley.
I: 145
She was acquainted with Maria Jane Jewsbury ...
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...
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.
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Family and Intimate relationships Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ 's older siblings were, in order of birth, Maria Jane (also a writer), Thomas , and Henry . Her elder brothers went into business.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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She had two younger brothers: Arthur (a sailor) and...
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press.
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Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
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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...
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...
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...
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
About an orphan named Clarissa, it was affectionately
Jewsbury, Geraldine. The History of an Adopted Child. Grant and Griffith.
prelims
dedicated to Miss Margaretta Darby , who had taught GJ at the Misses Darby's Boarding School .
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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Its preface challenges the conventional depiction of childhood:...
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, p. xi - xxviii.
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while visiting Colonel Ovans , political resident at Satara in April this year, ER set out for...
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
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...

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