Mary Anne Jevons

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Standard Name: Jevons, Mary Anne,, the elder
Birth Name: Mary Anne Roscoe
Married Name: Mary Anne Jevons
Pseudonym: M. A. J.
Indexed Name: Mrs Thomas Jevons
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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Mary Ann Browne
Mary Anne Jevons included three poems by MAB in her little Liverpool publication The Sacred Offering. A Poetical Annual, 1834.
Jevons had launched this venture in 1831, and for the first two numbers all...
Anthologization Isabella Lickbarrow
Elizabeth Scott included IL in her Specimens of British Poetry, 1823. So did Mary Anne Jevons in her modest little annualThe Sacred Offering, in the years 1833-4.
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.
under Jevons
After this IL
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Sandbach
MS 's aunts Mary Anne Jevons and Jane Elizabeth Hornblower (her father's sisters) were both poets, and Jevons was also an editor.
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.
Friends, Associates Mary Ann Browne
MAB had already met L. E. L. and Mary Russell Mitford .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She now met the Chorley family, Shelton Mackenzie of the Dublin University Magazine, and other figures in Liverpool literary society. She presumably...
Literary responses Mary Wollstonecraft
Radicals, however, responded positively. William Roscoe (father of Mary Anne Jevons ) hailed MW in a poem satirising Burke.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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Appearing shortly before Tom Paine 's Rights of Man on 1 February 1791, the book...

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Texts

Jevons, Mary Anne, the elder, editor. Poems for Youth, By a Family Circle. Printed for Robinson and Sons by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown , 1820.
Jevons, Mary Anne, the elder. Sonnets, and Other Poems, Chiefly Devotional. Simpkin, Marshall; D. Marples, 1845.
Jevons, Mary Anne, the elder, editor. The Sacred Offering. Hamilton, Adams; D. Marples.
Jevons, Mary Anne, the elder, editor. The Sacred Offering. Joseph Dowe, 1836, p. iii - iv.