Maria Jane Jewsbury

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Standard Name: Jewsbury, Maria Jane
Birth Name: Maria Jane Jewsbury
Married Name: Maria Jane Fletcher
Pseudonym: M. J. J.
MJJ , born in 1800, was a poet, novelist, reviewer, travel writer, children's writer, and essayist. Before her death at the age of thirty-three, she published a two-volume collection of fiction, essays, and poetry, as well as another volume of poetry and volume of fiction. Widely published in periodicals and annuals, she wrote a collection of letters intended for young readers, as well as many reviews and essays for the Athenæum.
Stipple engraving of Maria Jane Jewsbury by John Cochran after painting by G. Freeman,published 1847. She is seated, holding a book or paper. Her light dress has large puff sleeves and a sprig of flowers at the bosom; it leaves her shoulders bare. She has a dark shawl wrapped around her, and a long chain necklace. Her dark hair is parted in the centre and arranged in short curls.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Sara Coleridge
During her first pregnancy, SC received frequent visits from friends Joanna Baillie and Maria Jane Jewsbury .
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press.
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Friends, Associates Sara Coleridge
Among women writers, in addition to Dorothy Wordsworth , Joanna Baillie , and Maria Jane Jewsbury , SC also knew Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Anna Jameson , Elizabeth Rigby , Elizabeth Gaskell , and Harriet Martineau
Friends, Associates Dorothy Wordsworth
DW 's correspondents included Maria Jane Jewsbury and Mary Ann Lamb . She was very close to Coleridge , who settled at Greta Hall near Keswick to be near the Wordsworths at Grasmere in June...
Friends, Associates Felicia Hemans
FH 's literary correspondents and friends included Grace Aguilar , Joanna Baillie (whose Beacon she recalled reading when very young), and Mary Howitt .
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn.
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Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley.
I: 145
She was acquainted with Maria Jane Jewsbury ...
Friends, Associates Felicia Hemans
The connection between the male and the female poet was made by Maria Jane Jewsbury , who was a good friend of the family, Dora Wordsworth especially. Hemans brought one of her sons on the...
Friends, Associates Caroline Bowles
CB 's dealings with Blackwood's led to a positive working relationship with editor John Wilson . She also maintained a long correspondence with Anna Eliza Bray and (in later years) a shorter one with poet...
Fictionalization Felicia Hemans
Maria Jane Jewsbury had already begun the idealisation of FH in 1830 with her portrait of Egeria in The History of a Nonchalant: a muse, a grace, a variable child, a dependent woman—the Italy...
Family and Intimate relationships Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ 's older siblings were, in order of birth, Maria Jane (also a writer), Thomas , and Henry . Her elder brothers went into business.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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She had two younger brothers: Arthur (a sailor) and...
Family and Intimate relationships Geraldine Jewsbury
The year after they moved to Manchester, GJ 's mother died. Geraldine was subsequently brought up by her sister Maria Jane .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press.
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Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
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Education Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ went to London with her sister Maria Jane in order to perfect her languages and drawing.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
14
death Emma Roberts
She had suffered from fever on the voyage out. Taken ill with a disease of the stomach
Unsigned, and Emma Roberts. “Memoir”. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay, W. H. Allen, p. xi - xxviii.
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while visiting Colonel Ovans , political resident at Satara in April this year, ER set out for...
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...

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