Jessie White Mario

-
JWM made her literary debut in Eliza Cook's Journal, but it was her involvement in the Italian Risorgimento (sometimes as a spy) that fostered her career as a journalist, translator, propagandist, lecturer, and biographer. Her service as a field nurse during Garibaldi 's various campaigns informed her war correspondence printed in English and American periodicals. From 1866 until her death in 1906, she wrote one hundred and forty-three articles on Italian life and politics for the Nation. She also penned important biographies of many Italian figures, including Garibaldi and Mazzini .
  • BirthName: Jessie Jane Meriton White
  • Nickname: Miss Urigano
    Her nickname, Italian for Miss Hurricane, affectionately referred to her dedication to the cause of Italian unification.
    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, 1990.

  • Married: Mario
  • Pseudonyms: J. W.; G de F
Black and white photograph of Jessie White Mario, standing with one hand on her hip and the other on the back of a carved chair. She is wearing a long skirt with a bold pattern and a simple, solid-coloured jacket with broad sleeves. Her hair is chin-length and her expression challenging.

Milestones

9 May 1832

Jessie White, later JWM , was born, probably at 15 Chapel Row, Forton, near Gosport in Hampshire.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
14, 145
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

31 May 1851-28 June 1851

Jessie White (later JWM ) was the probable author of an anonymous, serialized story, Lilly Crossland, apparently one of her many contributions to Eliza Cook's Journal.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
134n24

15 February 1906

JWM finished her last article for the Nation, The New Italian Ministry, which was published on 8 March, in the week of her death.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
183

5 March 1906

JWM died at Florence in her mid seventies.
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, 1990.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
115

Biography

Birth and Family

9 May 1832

Jessie White, later JWM , was born, probably at 15 Chapel Row, Forton, near Gosport in Hampshire.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
14, 145
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Please click on login button to check your access and/or enter your credentials. Alternatively if you don’t have access, please click on “Subscribe”.

Log inSubscribe