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Maria Jane Jewsbury or Maria Jane Fletcher (25 October 1800 – 4 October 1833) was a British writer and literary reviewer. ==Life== Jewsbury was born in Measham in 1800, then in Derbyshire, now in Leicestershire. She was the daughter of Thomas Jewsbury (d. 1840), a cotton manufacturer and merchant, and his wife Maria, née Smith, (d. 1819).〔(Maria Jane Fletcher ), Romantic Circles, retrieved 17 January 2015〕 Her paternal grandfather, Thomas Jewsbury Sr. (d. 1799), was an unprofessional surveyor of roads, an engineer of canal navigation, and studied philosophy. Upon his death he left the family four cottages, a warehouse, a piece of land in Measham, and a large sum of money.〔 Maria Jane Jewsbury was the eldest of the children. Her younger brother Thomas was born in 1802, then Henry in 1803. Geraldine in 1812, Arthur in 1815, and Frank in 1819.〔 Jewsbury's father worked as the master of a cotton factory. However, the War of 1812 with America hurt the cotton business and the family moved to Manchester on George Street in 1818, after her father's business failed. Geraldine's mother died one month after giving birth to Frank, the youngest of the Jewsbury children. Jewsbury, then 19, took on the motherly role for the household so her father could keep working. She took care of the children for over twelve years after their mother's death. Jewsbury attended a school in Shenstone, Staffordshire, but ill health obliged her to leave at the age of 14.〔 (Joanne Wilkes: Jewsbury , Maria Jane (1800–1833), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004). Retrieved 17 January 2015 )〕 While bringing up her brothers and sisters, she read avidly, and began to contribute to the ''Manchester Gazette'' in 1821.〔 She wrote letters to her sister in 1828 while Geraldine was in Misses Darby's school. Under the title ''Letters to the Young,'' Maria Jane wrote to Geraldine, already aspiring to be a writer, about the dangers of fame. Maria Jane warns her younger sister that fame brings unhappiness and the only true happiness one can find is in religion. These letters were written after Maria Jane had a spiritual crisis in 1826, but Geraldine still did not take her advice. Maria Jane's first book was ''Phantasmagoria'' contained poetry and prose and was published in 1825. The book attracted the attention of William Wordsworth and Dorothy. She visited the Wordsworths in Lancashire in July 1825. Another friend was Felicia Hemans, with whom she stayed in Wales in the summer of 1828. Through acquaintance with the editor of the ''Athenaeum'', Charles Wentworth Dilke, she began to write for it in 1830. Against the wishes of her father, she was married on 1 August 1832 to Rev. William Kew Fletcher (d. 1867), at Penegoes, Montgomeryshire. The couple set out on the long sea journey to India, where she continued to write poetry en route and a journal. The poetry was published in the ''Athenaeum'' and is called ''The Oceanides''.〔(The Oceanides ), Maria Jane Jewsbury, ed.by Judith Pascoe, retrieved 17 January 2015〕 Jewsbury became ill in June 1833 and died of cholera at Poona on 4 October 1833. She had brought several of her unpublished works to India, and many were published anonymously after her death.〔 Many of Jewsbury's papers are now in the University of Manchester Library.〔(Jewsbury Papers ), The University of Manchester Library, retrieved 17 January 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maria Jane Jewsbury」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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