Maria Jane Jewsbury, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maria Jane Jewsbury

English writer and literary reviewer

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1800

Place of Birth: Measham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-Oct-1833

Profession: writer, poet, literary critic

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Maria Jane Jewsbury (later Maria Jane Fletcher; 25 October 1800 – 4 October 1833) was an English writer, poet and reviewer.
Her Phantasmagoria, Letters to the Young, Lays for Leisure Hours and The Three Histories were highly popular.
While bringing up brothers and sisters, she read avidly and wrote for the Manchester Gazette in 1821.
She mixed family duties with writing and friendship with many authors.
Her religious advice tended to dogmatism and a feeling of Christian right.
Her Phantasmagoria, containing poetry and prose, 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 Henry Roscoes, the Charles Wentworth Dilkes, the Samuel Carter Halls, the Henry Chorleys, and Thomas De Quincey.
Through Dilke, its editor, she began writing for the Athenaeum in 1830.
She married Rev.
William Kew Fletcher (died 1867) in 1832, at Penegoes, Montgomeryshire, against her father's wishes.
They sailed for India while she continued to write a journal, and poetry printed in the Athenaeum as The Oceanides.