Mary Jane Katzmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mary Jane Katzmann

Canadian editor and historian

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1828

Place of Birth: Preston, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canada

Date of Death: 23-Mar-1890

Profession: writer, poet, historian

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Mary Jane Katzmann

  • Mary Jane Katzmann (also known as, Mrs.
  • William Lawson; sobriquet, M.
  • J.
  • K.; January 15, 1828 – March 23, 1890) was a Canadian author, editor, historian, and poet. Katzmann published short poems from time to time, and afterwards became a regular contributor to various periodicals and newspapers, including the Colonist, the Record, and the Guardian.
  • For two years, she edited the Provincial Magazine, one of the earliest of its kind published in Halifax.
  • For this, she wrote "Tales of our Village,"—sketches of the early history of Dartmouth and Preston interwoven with local traditions.
  • She invariably signed all she wrote with her initials, M.
  • J.
  • K., and by this sobriquet, became well known to all her friends.She was married in 1869 to William Lawson, Esq., of Halifax, in which town she was then living.
  • After her marriage, her time was largely given to work among the poor, and to social and benevolent schemes, particularly those connected with the Church of England, of which she was a devoted member.
  • She preserved to the end of her life that love for literary work which she had early displayed, and any event of interest in the community was sure to call forth sympathetic lines which were now signed with the initials M.
  • J.
  • K.
  • L.
  • In 1887, she obtained the Akins Historical Prize of King's College, Windsor, for her History of the, Townxhi* of Dartmouth, Preston, and Lawrencetown.
  • She died at Halifax, on Sunday, March 23, 1890, after several weeks of painful illness, leaving one child, a daughter.

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