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, pp. 301-17.
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(the first of them designed expressly for the instruction of children) and one about gardening.

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.
20
, No. 1, 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, 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, pp. 301-17.
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OCLC WorldCat. 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, 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, 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, pp. 45-56.
46

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