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JEWSBURY (MARIA JANE)
22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
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JEWSBURY (MARIA JANE)
Autograph letter signed ("M.J.J."), to R.F. Housman ("My dear friend"), giving news of her literary undertakings ("...I have many literary engagements on hand – a set of Ballad-Songs for Music – a volume or two for the juvenile Library – & a few things beside...") and recent encounters, including a session with Coleridge ("...I have seen Joanna Baillie. A Grandisonian gentlewoman wearing her own grey hair – & dressed with exquisite ancient propriety – has the Scotch accent – is mild, pale, fragile looking – does not talk particularly at all – has a mild deep eye. Coleridge I drank tea with again, & again he was delightful... I have seen a great deal of Miss Landon – & the real girl, Miss L. I feel an affectionate regard for. – She is in reality very different from what her public, dinner-party manner would had you to believe. Martin has passed me a proof of his plate of the Fall of Ninevah..."); with address panel, three pages, cross-written (running onto the fourth), remains of mounting on final page, 4to, "London. Tuesday" (postmarked 10 August 1830)
Footnotes
MARIA JANE JEWSBURY ON CONTEMPORARY WOMEN WRITERS: this extremely fine letter, probing as it does into the literary culture of her age, dates from the time when Maria Jane Jewsbury – protégée of Wordsworth and close friend of his daughter Dora – began reviewing for the Athenaeum, where she wrote a series of articles that pioneered the appreciation of woman's writing: 'In 1830, she became a reviewer for the Athenaeum magazine and, there, she began a series of articles, originally entitled 'Literary Sketches' but which, by the second article, had been renamed 'Literary Women'. The first was on Felicia Hemans; the second was on Jane Austen. In the space of even the first article, though, Jewsbury discovered for herself what would eventually become the tenets of modern feminist criticism, and, in drawing upon the experiences of Hemans and Austen, began to see a way to becoming a good writer. She begins by calling for a "feminine literary house of commons", and addresses the split between men and women writers' (Dennis Low, 'Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase: a Portrait of Wordsworth and Maria Jane Jewsbury', The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 25, Summer 2005, courtesy the Friends of Coleridge website). The recipient, Robert Fletcher Housman, was an anthologist and, like her, contributed to the giftbook publications of the day. Maria Jane Jewsbury herself was to die three years later, and her letters are correspondingly rare: none is recorded as having been sold in ABPC.