Hannah Maria Jones

Hannah Maria Jones
1835 book cover
Born 1784?
Died 1854
Nationality British

Hannah Maria Jones (1784? – 1854) was a British novelist.

Life

Jones' early life is unclear. She is thought to have been born in 1784 although later dates have been suggested. She married a Mr Jones and in the 1820s she published Gretna Green (1820), The British Officer (1821); The Wedding Ring (1824), The Forged Note (1824) and The Victim of Fashion (1825). Jones made little money from this work although she was able to look after her husband who was ill. However the facts are from application to the Royal Literary Fund and may therefore be exaggerated.[1]

Jones most successful work was a trilogy about gypsies.[2] It is thought that Jones may not have received the money she deserved from these books[1] and other more successful authors like Ellen Pickering published similar works.[3]

Jones started to live with another writer named John Lownes and although they never married she used his surname. Their frequent and sometimes dubious applications to the Royal Literary funds became well known.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hannah Maria Jones, Fiona Alexander, Sheffield Hallam University, retrieved 31 March 2015
  2. ↑ Jones, Hannh Maria (1833). The gipsy mother, or, The miseries of enforced marriage.
  3. ↑ Elizabeth Lee, ‘Pickering, Ellen (1801/2–1843)’, rev. Kathryn Sutherland, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 30 March 2015
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