Mary Anne Jevons

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Mary Anne Jevons came from a literary family and was encouraged to write from an early age. Having begun by editing a collection of her family's poetry, she went on during the early and mid nineteenth century to publish volumes of poetry on her own (largely religious), as well as verse in annuals. She edited one of these, The Sacred Offering.

Milestones

5 August 1795

Mary Anne Roscoe (later Jevons) was born in Liverpool, the eldest daughter in her family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1817-1819

Mary Anne Roscoe (later Jevons) kept a literary diary during these years, recording her daily studies and earliest attempts at poetry.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1845

In the same year as her death, Mary Anne Jevons , as Mrs Thomas Jevons, published her final volume, Sonnets, and Other Poems, Chiefly Devotional.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

13 November 1845

Mary Anne Jevons died in the home of her brother Richard at 37 Alfred Place, Bloomsbury.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

5 August 1795

Mary Anne Roscoe (later Jevons) was born in Liverpool, the eldest daughter in her family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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