Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
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.
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.