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Author

Jewsbury, Maria Jane. afterwards Fletcher. (1800-1833).

Title

Lays of leisure hours.

Imprint

London : J. Hatchard and Son, 1829.

Physical description

pp.xii 189 12mo. Contemporary full calf, black label.

Call number

WPRP 92.

Citation

Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 174.

Notes

This is the third of only four titles by Jewsbury, elder sister of the better-known Manchester novelist Geraldine Jewsbury, and a particular friend of the Wordsworths. Her first work, Phantasmagoria (1825) was dedicated to Wordsworth; he thought very highly of her and in 1829 addressed his poem Liberty to her in return. In 1832 Jewsbury married a clergyman, who was in the service of the East India Company, and sailed for Bombay where she died from cholera in 1833.

Citation:

Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 174.

Notes

Includes Dedication. This is the third of only four titles by Jewsbury.

Epigraph

So hath my spirit passed!

          As a wild bird amidst the foliage turns

That which within him triumphs, beats, or burns,

Into a fleeting lay.

 

Mrs. Hemans.

Online copies

Digital copy and transcription at UC Davis

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