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.
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...
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, 1841, p. xi - xxviii.
xxiv
while visiting Colonel Ovans
, political resident at Satara in April this year, ER
set out for...
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, 1935.
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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, 1935.
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, 2000.
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Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
254
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...
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, 1989.
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...
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...
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 vols.
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Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley, 1836, 2 vols.
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...
Literary responses
Mary Maria Colling
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...
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, 1935.
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The scandal surrounding its content did work in the author's...
Timeline
February 1930: D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published...
Byatt, A. S. Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction. Editor Bell, Hazel K., University of Toronto, 2001.
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Lewis, D. B. Wyndham et al. The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse. 2nd edition, Capricorn, 1962.
Texts
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, 2 vols.
Jewsbury, Maria Jane. The Three Histories. F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1830.
