Little is known of her mother, Maria (Smith) Jewsbury
, who is said to have possessed artistic taste and skill.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research, 1983.
21: 190
qtd. in
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Maria Jane Jewsbury
Her mother
's death after childbirth in 1819 left nineteen-year-old MJJ
burdened by domestic and child-rearing duties.
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.
222
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Maria Jane Jewsbury
Little is known of her mother, Maria (Smith) Jewsbury
. She was said to be graceful and refined, of cultivated artistic taste and skill and an excellent housewife.
qtd. in
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.