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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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...
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...
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.
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Sarah Stickney contributed to it...
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
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...
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
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 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 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 Jane Austen
JA 's early admirers among her fellow women writers constituted a small, select band. They included Sarah Harriet Burney , Anne Grant , Mary Ann Kelty , Maria Callcott , Maria Jane Jewsbury , Harriet Martineau

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