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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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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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.
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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
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...
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...
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 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.
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dedicated to Miss Margaretta Darby , who had taught GJ at the Misses Darby's Boarding School .
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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Its preface challenges the conventional depiction of childhood:...
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...
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.
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Sarah Stickney contributed to it...

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