Hannah Maria Jones (1784? – 1854) was a British novelist. Jones' most successful work was a trilogy about gypsies; including ''The Gypsy Mother'' (1835) and ''The Gypsy Girl'' (1836, also known as ''The Heir of Hazel Dell''). It is thought that Jones may not have received the money she deserved from these books and other more successful authors like

Ellen Pickering Ellen Pickering (1802 – 25 November 1843) was a British novelist who published sixteen three-volume novels, one of them posthumously. At a time when fictional representations of Romani people, stories about gypsies were common in nineteenth-c ...

published similar works.Elizabeth Lee, 'Pickering, Ellen (1801/2–1843)', rev. Kathryn Sutherland, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 30 March 2015
/ref> 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 The Royal Literary Fund (RLF) is a benevolent fund that gives assistance to published British writers in financial difficulties. Founded in 1790, and granted a royal charter in 1818, the Fund has helped an extensive roll of authors through its long ...

and may therefore be exaggerated.Hannah Maria Jones
Fiona Alexander, Sheffield Hallam University, retrieved 31 March 2015 Jones lived 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.

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