FJ
's father died, blind and infirm. She and her sister Maria
began an orphaned existence of staying with relations (some of them unwelcoming) for a year and four months before they were offered a...
Literary responses
Frances Jacson
The Critical Review did this novel proud, first listing it, then praising it warmly for its superior moral tendency.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 1 (1812): 668
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
Joan Percy
bolsters her argument against AL
's authorship of the novels now attributed to Frances Jacson
by quoting some of the most stilted remarks from this one—Unhand me this instant and let me...
Textual Production
Frances Jacson
This novel was advertised early the next year. As far back as 1945, Lewis's biographer Eliza Pearl Shippen
doubted the attribution to her of this novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 641
Shippen, Eliza Pearl. Eugenia de Acton (1749-1827). University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945.
Again, many reference sources attribute this novel to Alethea Lewis
, though Lewis's biographer Shippen doubted the ascription. The work was ascribed to Jacson firstly by Maria Edgeworth
in 1818, and later by Joan Percy
Travel
Maria Elizabetha Jacson
After a peripatetic year staying with this and that family of relations—at their old home of Bebington, then Langold in Nottinghamshire, and Firbeck (one of several places of that name), they were relieved...