Author: Jevons, Mary Anne
Biography:
JEVONS, Mary Anne, formerly Roscoe (1794-1845: ODNB)
She was born 5 Aug. 1795 into a highly accomplished Unitarian family, the eldest daughter, one of ten children of attorney, banker, MP, and reformer William Roscoe (q.v.) and his wife, Jane (Griffes) Roscoe. Her siblings Robert and Jane Elizabeth also were poets (qq.v). On 23 Nov. 1825, she married ironmaster Thomas Jevons (1835-1882), with whom she had eleven children. In the 1830s, she edited a religious annual, Sacred Offering. Several pieces in her Poems, by One of the Authors of Poems for Youth by a Family Circle (1821) are juvenilia that she composed between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one. She died 13 Nov. 1845, at 37 Alfred Place, Bloomsbury. There was a memorial to her in the Unitarian Chapel in Renshaw Street, Liverpool; the chapel was pulled down between 1899 and 1904. Her manuscript diary and journal are preserved at the Liverpool Central Library. (ODNB 23 Nov. 2023; R. D. Collison Black, ed., Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons [2016]) JC
Other Names:
- M. A. Jevons