Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
Literary responses
Caroline Bowles
The Gentleman's Magazine's obituary for Bowles recalled that Chapters on Churchyardscontributed materially to establish her literary reputation and also showed powers of narrative fitting her for a popular and profitable branch of composition...
Literary responses
Mary Ann Browne
The Monthly Review, though anxious that publicity might not be good for the young poet or her talent, nevertheless estimated her talent highly, found in the title poem the genuine divine fire, and...
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...
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.
Maria Jane Jewsbury
's review for the Athenæum doubted whether Bray
's act of bringing Colling into the literary spotlight and drawing public attention to her as an intellectual marvel . . . is not...
Textual Production
Ann Batten Cristall
The publisher Joseph Johnson
issued by subscription ABC
's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism.
Two years later, William Ellis
began another religious publication, The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual, whose title was an answer to another popular gift-book, The Keepsake.
Chase, Karen, and Michael Levenson. The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family. Princeton University Press.
Maria Jane Jewsbury
published, anonymously according to practice, an essay on FH
's verse in the Athenæum.
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge.
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Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, edited by Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University Press, p. xiii - xxix; various pages.
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...
Textual Production
Felicia Hemans
FH
also published in many of the gift books or literary annuals that became popular from the later 1820s: the Amulet, the Book of Beauty, Christmas Box, the English Annual, the...
Literary responses
Felicia Hemans
Jewsbury
portrayed FH
herself as an English gentlewoman who is as feminine as a poetess ought to be, but she acknowledged the gender-bending that category involved by inviting her readers to contemplate the possibility of...
Timeline
February 1930: D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published...
Jewsbury, Maria Jane. Lays of Leisure Hours. J. Hatchard, 1829.
Jewsbury, Maria Jane. Letters to the Young. J. Hatchard, 1828.
Jewsbury, Maria Jane. “Literary Women. No. II. Jane Austen”. Athenaeum, pp. 553-4.
Gillett, Eric, and Maria Jane Jewsbury. “Maria Jane Jewsbury: A Memoir”. Maria Jane Jewsbury: Occasional Papers, Oxford University Press, 1932, p. xiii - lxvii.
Jewsbury, Maria Jane. Phantasmagoria; or, Sketches of Life and Literature. Hurst, Robinson, 1825.
Jewsbury, Maria Jane. The Three Histories. F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1830.