Author: Margaret Elizabeeth Mary Jones
Author: Margaret Elizabeeth Mary Jones (1823–1912)
Alternate Name(s): M. E. M. J. (pseudonym); Jones (maiden name)
Biography: Margaret Elizabeth Mary Jones was born about 1823 in London. A precocious child, she wrote and published a poem Waldenburg (1837) by the age of fourteen. She would go on to publish several more poetic and fictional works. In addition, she worked as a governess and teacher in London and for a brief time in Oswego, New York. In 1869, she married her cousin Benjamin Lawrence Jones, a merchant. The couple was childless. After his death in 1900 she did not remarry and died on 9 October 1912 in Hampstead.
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References: British Census (1851, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1911); Probate
Fiction Titles:
- Ismael and Cassander: or, The Jew and the Greek. 1 vol. London: James Blackwood, 1860.
- Every Day: A Story of Common Life. 1 vol. London: Provost, 1868.
- Dorothy Brown: A Story of Everyday Life. 1 vol. London: Remington, 1881.