The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature ... - uogenglish

The Early Nineteenth-Century Novel
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The old dominion, or the Southampton massacre: a novel. New
York 1856, 3 vols London 1856, 1 vol 1858.
Leonora d’Orco: a historical romance. 3 vols 1857, 1 vol 1858; tr Fr
1858.
Lord Montagu’s page: a historical romance. 3 vols 1858, 1 vol
Philadelphia 1858.
The cavalier: an historical novel. Philadelphia 1859, 2 vols 1864 (as
Bernard Marsh: a novel).
James contributed to Seven tales by seven authors, ed F. E. Smedley, 1849,
1860, and wrote lives of eminent foreign statesmen for vols 2–5 of Lardner’s
cabinet cyclopaedia, 1836, 2 vols Philadelphia 1836.
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The novels of James. Dublin Univ Mag Mar 1842.
Horne, R. H. In his A new spirit of the age vol 1, 1844.
Recollections of James. Bentley’s Misc Feb 1861.
Frost, W. A. The novels and short stories of James. N & Q 26 Aug 1916.
Annotated list.
Ellis, S. M. The solitary horseman: or the life and adventures of
James. 1927. With bibliography.
Duffy, C. Letter from G. P. R. J. to B. Taylor. N & Q 19 June 1943.
Maria Jane Jewsbury, later Fletcher 1800–33
Manuscripts
Mss of Jewsbury’s letters of 1818 and 1827–32 to her family are held in the John
Rylands Univ Lib of Manchester. Mss of her letters to William and Dora
Wordsworth (1825–32) are held in the Dove Cottage Papers (Wordsworth
Trust, Grasmere): they include her satirical newspaper co-written with Dora
Wordsworth in 1825, the Kent’s Bank Mercury. The Spencer Lib of the Univ
of Kansas holds two letters of 1829 and 1830 to Caroline Bowles; Duke Univ
Lib holds a letter from Jewsbury to the Rev Thomas Raffles, plus clippings of
her poems, an engraving and obituary. For other British holdings of mss see LR
i, 516.
Selections
Maria Jane Jewsbury: occasional papers. Selected with a memoir by
E. Gillett 1932.
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Phantasmagoria: or sketches of life and literature. 2 vols Leeds 1825
(anon). Dedicated to William Wordsworth. Some prose pieces
rptd in Maria Jane Jewsbury: occasional papers, 1932.
Letters to the young. 1828, Boston 1829 as Letters of Maria Jane
Jewsbury addressed to her young friends (bound with Legh
Richmond’s Advice to his daughters) (micro New Haven CT 1975),
London 1829 (2nd edn), 1832 (3rd edn), Boston 1834, Boston,
Philadelphia and New York 1835, rptd Philadelphia 1863, 1837
(4th edn), Philadelphia [1851] as Light for the young.
Lays of leisure hours. 1829. Dedicated to Felicia Hemans.
The three histories: the history of an enthusiast, the history of a
nonchalant, the history of a realist. 1830, Boston 1831, 1832 (2nd
edn), Philadelphia 1834, Derby 1838 (3rd edn).
reviews: Literary Gazette 24 Apr 1830; Athenaeum 1 May 1830;
NMM 30 1830; Edinburgh Jnl 8 May 1830.
Contributions to periodicals
Curiosity and scandal. Coventry Herald, Spring 1818. Rptd in Maria
Jane Jewsbury: occasional papers, 1932.
Jewsbury contributed to the Manchester Gazette from 1821. Over 70 contributions
to 13 annuals listed in A. Boyle, An index to the Annuals, vol 1
1967; some of these rptd in Lays of leisure hours, 1829, and in Maria Jane
Jewsbury: occasional papers, 1932. Contributions to the Athenaeum
1830–1 listed in M.C. Fryckstedt, The hidden rill: the life and career of
Maria Jane Jewsbury, ii. BJRL 67 1984–5. Jewsbury’s contributions for 1832
cannot be identified with certainty, but N. Clarke attributes to her four articles
titled On modern female cultivation (4, 11, 25 Feb and 11 Aug), plus a
review of Mrs John Sandford’s Woman in her social and domestic char-
acter, 5 May. See Clarke’s Ambitious heights: writing, friendship, love
– the Jewsbury sisters, Felicia Hemans and Jane Welsh Carlyle, 1990.
Jewsbury’s journal of her voyage to and experience in India, plus her poem
sequence, Oceanides, were pbd in the Athenaeum between Dec 1832 and
Dec 1833
Letters and journals
There is no edn of Jewsbury’s letters, but selections and extracts have been pbd
in Maria Jane Jewsbury: occasional papers, 1932, and in N. Clarke,
Ambitious heights, 1990, as well as in the following:
Chorley, H. F. Memorials of Mrs Hemans, with illustrations of her
literary character from her private correspondence. 2 vols 1836.
Fryckstedt, M. C. The hidden rill: the life and career of Maria Jane
Jewsbury. BJRL 66 1983–4 and 67 1984–5.
Extracts from Jewsbury’s journal of her voyage to and residence in India,
1832–3, were pbd in F. Espinasse, Lancashire worthies, 2nd ser 1877, rptd
from the Athenaeum.
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Mrs Fletcher. Athenaeum 21 June 1834 (anon). Obituary.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. Mrs Fletcher, late Miss Jewsbury. Christian
Keepsake 1838.
Chorley, H. F. Review of Zoe (novel by Jewsbury’s sister Geraldine).
Athenaeum 1 Feb 1845.
Williams, Jane. The literary women of England. 1861.
See also texts listed under Letters and journals, above. [jw]
Christian Isobel Johnstone 1781–1857
The Saxon and the Gael: or the northern metropolis, including a
view of the Lowland and Highland character. 4 vols London and
Edinburgh 1814. Anon.
Clan-Albin: a national tale. 4 vols London, Edinburgh and Dublin
1815 (anon), 1815, 3 vols Philadelphia 1815, 1 vol London 1853 (as
Clan Albyn).
The wars of the Jews, as related by Josephus adapted to the capacities
of young persons. 1823, 1824, Boston 1826, London 1832 (4th
edn), New York and Boston 1853 (as Stories from the history of the
Jews). Adapted from Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico.
The cook and housewife’s manual, containing the most approved
modern receipts for making soups, gravies, sauces, by Margaret
Dods. Edinburgh 1826 (11 edns by 1862).
The students: or biography of Grecian philosophers. [1827.]
Elizabeth de Bruce. 3 vols Edinburgh and London 1827, 2 vols New
York 1827; tr Ger 1827.
Diversions of Hollycot: or the mother’s art of thinking. 1828, New
York 1829, Edinburgh 1845 (3rd edn), London and Edinburgh
1876.
Scenes of industry displayed in the bee-hive and the ant-hill.
[1829?], 1830.
Lives and voyages of Drake, Cavendish and Dampier: including an
introductory view of the earlier discoveries in the South Sea and
the history of the buccaneers. Edinburgh 1831, New York 1832,
1836, Edinburgh 1837, New York 1839, 1842, 1844, Edinburgh
1846, New York 1846, 1900.
Nights of the round table: or stories of Aunt Jane and her friends. 2
ser Edinburgh 1832, 1 vol Philadelphia 1845, Edinburgh [1847].
True tales of the Irish peasantry, as related by themselves, selected
from the Report of the Poor-Law Commissioners. [1836?],
Edinburgh 1836 (2nd edn).
Rational reading lessons. Edinburgh 1842.
The Edinburgh tales. 3 vols Edinburgh 1845–6. Ed Mrs Johnstone.
Includes tales by Mrs Johnstone first pbd in Inverness Courier,
Edinburgh Weekly Chron and Johnstone’s Edinburgh Mag, later
merged with Tait’s Mag, which she and her husband owned and
edited.
Mrs Johnstone also edited the Poems of Robert Nicoll, 1842. [pg]