Author

Maria Jane Jewsbury(1800–1833)

Maria Jane Jewsbury is documented in Fuller’s letters and manuscripts (1835). One work is named, most often in Letter to unknown, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Manuscripts
Documented: 1835

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Maria Jane Jewsbury’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

undatedLettersAttested
“Miss Jewsbury's letters. She writes a fine style though not that concise and marked one I like.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 5th Decr
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re499 (Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers), M-015.txt lines 139-147; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Journal reading-log entry documenting a specific just-read work (Jewsbury's Letters) with reaction.

In Fuller’s words

“Miss Jewsbury's letters. She writes a fine style though not that concise and marked one I like. She has not the simplicity of strength but the simplicity of _holiness._”

Letters to the Young' · Notes on Burdon, Hugo, Child, and Jewsbury · 1835

When Fuller engaged with Maria Jane Jewsbury

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Jewsbury in Fuller’s reading world

“Letters to the Young”Inferred1835

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1835—

Notes on Burdon, Hugo, Child, and Jewsbury

analyzed · readManuscript page

“Miss Jewsbury's letters. She writes a fine style though not that concise and marked one I like. She has not the simplicity of strength but the simplicity of _holiness._”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Burdon, Hugo, Child, and Jewsbury." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Title inferred from 'Miss Jewsbury's letters.'.

Fuller praises her style ('fine style') while noting it lacks the 'concise and marked' quality she prefers, and attributes to Jewsbury 'the simplicity of holiness.' On page 3 Fuller also mentions 'Southey makes me think of Miss Jewsbury' in the context of deriving imagery from the Bible.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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Letter to unknown

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analyzed · read

“Miss Jewsbury and other flattered poetesses mourn over womans lot as something peculiar”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Hudspeth identified Jewsbury's Lays of Leisure Hours as dedicated to Hemans, though Fuller does not cite this title in her letter; her critique focuses on Jewsbury's poetic work and its representation of women's condition.