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.
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...
Literary responses
Mary Wollstonecraft
MW
's posthumous vilification was followed by a long period during which her name was considered barely fit to be mentioned. Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
borrowed her title The Wrongs of Woman in 1843; Maria Jane Jewsbury
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.
xxiv
while visiting Colonel Ovans
, political resident at Satara in April this year, ER
set out for...
Occupation
Geraldine Jewsbury
After her sister
's marriage and departure for India, GJ
nursed her father and managed the household until his death in 1840. As her father's primary care-giver during the last years of his life, she...
Friends, Associates
Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ
encountered a strong female literary role model early in life, when at sixteen she summered in Wales with her siblings, staying in a cottage not far from that of Felicia Hemans
and her family...
Literary responses
Geraldine Jewsbury
While some contemporaries such as Hall disliked the book, others like Jane Carlyle
(to some extent), Erasmus Darwin
, and Mazzini
found it promising.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
80
The scandal surrounding its content did work in the author's...
Textual Production
Geraldine Jewsbury
About an orphan named Clarissa, it was affectionately
Jewsbury, Geraldine. The History of an Adopted Child. Grant and Griffith.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
115
Its preface challenges the conventional depiction of childhood:...
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
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.
30
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.
222
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
254
Publishing
Margaret Holford
In October 1830 Margaret Hodson, formerly Holford, was solicited by Baillie for contributions to the ongoing series of prose-and-verse miscellanies edited by M. Corbett
and her five sisters. (The first volume, The Odd Volume...
Literary responses
Felicia Hemans
Maria Jane Jewsbury
published, anonymously according to practice, an essay on FH
's verse in the Athenæum.
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge.
232n29
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.
238
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...
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.
