Maria Jane Jewsbury
English writer and literary reviewer (1800-1833)
Maria Jane Jewsbury (later Maria Jane Fletcher; 25 October 1800 – 4 October 1833) was an English writer, poet and reviewer. In 1821, while bringing up brothers and sisters, she wrote for the Manchester Gazette. Her Phantasmagoria of poetry and prose (1825), The Three Histories (1830) and Letters to the Young (1837) were highly popular.
Her religious advice tended towards dogmatism and a feeling of Christian right. Phantasmagoria was noticed by William Wordsworth and Dorothy, whom she visited in Lancashire. Other friends were Felicia Hemans, with whom she stayed in Wales in summer 1828, Barbara Hofland, Sara Coleridge, the Roscoes, the Dilkes, the Carter Halls, the Chorleys and Thomas De Quincey. Through its editor, Dilke, she began writing for The Athenaeum in 1830. In 1832 she married Rev. William Kew Fletcher (died 1867) at Penegoes, Montgomeryshire. They sailed for India, but she kept a journal and had poetry printed in The Athenaeum as "The Oceanides".
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