This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...young writers of Manchester, may be worthy a passing record; some lines bearing the initials W. H. A., one of the earliest literary compositions of that popular writer Mr. Harrison Ainsworth; a poem entitled ' The Convict Ship, ' a very noble effusion, by a young gentleman of Manchester, Mr. T. K. Hervey, best ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...young writers of Manchester, may be worthy a passing record; some lines bearing the initials W. H. A., one of the earliest literary compositions of that popular writer Mr. Harrison Ainsworth; a poem entitled ' The Convict Ship, ' a very noble effusion, by a young gentleman of Manchester, Mr. T. K. Hervey, best remembered now by his editorship in later years of the Athenceum; and a prose sketch, full of humour, signed with the initials M. J. J. ), . /, ..-, The editor's contributions were two poems, ' Kirkstall Abbey Revisited, ' and ' The Death of the First-born.' Of the embellishments I must not omit to note one by Brockedon, which greatly seized upon the imagination of Mrs. Henians, in which a child, playing close to the edge of a dangerous cliff, is being wiled back, in the most natural way in the world, to the bosom of its mother. VOL. I. 12 CHAPTER XVI. MARIA JANE JEWSBURY. In the foregoing notice of the contents of the first volume of the ' Literary Souvenir, ' I have mentioned amongst the contributions a sketch published under the initials ' M. J. J.' The name of this lady, Maria Jane Jewsbury, like the names of more than one of the literary personages to whom I may have to refer in this narrative, is little more than an echo in the age to which I am addressing myself, and might, indeed, scarcely be even that if it had not been kept somewhat in mind by the writings of a younger sister. She died in the prime of life, and she produced in quantity but little; but she became, nevertheless, a very distinct, because truly original personality, in the history of the literature of that period, and VARTA JANE JEWSBURY. 179 is remembered as such with respect by those who are familiar with it. Of her, Wordsworth, in a note to a poem addressed to...
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