Maria Elizabetha Jacson

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During the 1790s and the early nineteenth century, MEJ published three works about Linnean botany and plant physiology
Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 1990, pp. 301-17.
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(the first of them designed expressly for the instruction of children) and one about gardening.
  • BirthName: Maria Elizabetha Jacson
    This has sometimes been spelled Jackson, but the family still maintains its less usual spelling. The name is mistakenly normalised in OCLC WorldCat and Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

  • Self-constructed: M. E. J.
  • Indexed: Maria Elizabeth Jackson; Maria Jackson Henry
    OCLC WorldCat ascribes MEJ 's third book to Maria Jackson Henry.

Milestones

1755

MEJ was born, probably at Bebington in Cheshire, youngest but one in a family of five surviving children (out of eight).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Percy, Joan. “Maria Elizabeth Jacson and her ’Florist’s Manual’”. Garden History, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1992, pp. 45-56.
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1797

In the year that her sister Frances published her second novel, Maria Jacson issued her first, anonymous scientific text: Botanical Dialogues, Between Hortensia and Her Four Children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry.
Percy, Joan. “An Unrecognized Novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)”. British Library Journal, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 81-97.
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1816

MEJ issued with Henry ColburnThe Florist's Manual; or, Hints for the Construction of a Gay Flower Garden, the only one of her books to go into a third edition. Again she published with mention of previous titles and used her initials, though not on the title-page.
The Pictorial Flora, 1840, is ascribed to Maria Jacson in the National Union Catalogue, but was actually by Mary Ann Jackson .
Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 1990, pp. 301-17.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Percy, Joan. “An Unrecognized Novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)”. British Library Journal, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 81-97.
88

10 October 1829

Maria Jacson (botanical writer and sister of novelist Frances Jacson ) died of a fever while on a visit at Astle Hall, Chelford, Cheshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Percy, Joan. “An Unrecognized Novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)”. British Library Journal, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 81-97.
86

Biography

Birth and Family

1755

MEJ was born, probably at Bebington in Cheshire, youngest but one in a family of five surviving children (out of eight).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Percy, Joan. “Maria Elizabeth Jacson and her ’Florist’s Manual’”. Garden History, Vol.
20
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1992, pp. 45-56.
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