Mary Anne Jevons, ''née'' Roscoe (1795–1845) was an English poet.Rosemary Scott
Jevons, Mary Anne (1795–1845)
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Life

Mary Anne Roscoe was born into a Unitarian family at

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on 5 August 1795, the eldest daughter of William Roscoe and Jane Griffies (1757-1824). She was close to her father in her youth, and inherited a good deal of his poetic talent. She contributed to ''Poems for Youth, by a Family Circle'', 1820–1, 2 parts (3rd edition 1841), and wrote ''Poems by one of the Authors of “Poems for Youth,” &c.'', 1821, 12mo, pp. 66. She married Thomas Jevons, an ironmaster, on 23 November 1825. Among their eleven children, several of whom died young, was the economist

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. From 1831 to 1838 she edited ''The Sacred Offering, a Poetical Annual''. As well as members of the Roscoe family, contributors included Anna Letitia Barbauld, Mary Anne Brown, Harriet Martineau, and

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. Her own contributions were in 1845 collected under the title of ''Sonnets and other Poems, chiefly Devotional'', 8vo, pp. x, 134. In person, according to her '' DNB'' biographer, Jevons was "remarkably handsome, with very fascinating manners". References cited by Sutton: ''Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons'', 1886, p. 2; '' Gentleman's Magazine'', January 1846, p. 103; catalogues of the

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, the Manchester Free Library and the Liverpool Free Library. She died at 37 Alfred Place,

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on 13 November 1845.

References

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