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.
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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... |
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. 80 |
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 |
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, 1990. 232n29 Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, edited by Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University Press, 2000, p. xiii - xxix; various pages. 513n1 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Ann Batten Cristall | The publisher Joseph Johnson
issued by subscription ABC
's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism. Her title was the same as that of William Blake
's first publication, 1783. Critic Richard C. Sha |
Textual Production | Geraldine Jewsbury | About an orphan named Clarissa, it was affectionately Jewsbury, Geraldine. The History of an Adopted Child. Grant and Griffith, 1853. prelims Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 115 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Stickney Ellis | 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, 2000. 72-3 |
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