Background
She was close to her father in her youth, and inherited a good deal of his poetic talent.
She was close to her father in her youth, and inherited a good deal of his poetic talent.
Mary Anne Jevons, née Roscoe (1795–1845) was an English poet. She contributed to Poems for Youth, by a Family Circle, 1820-1821, 2 parts (3rd edition 1841), and wrote Poems by one of the Authors of “Poems for Youth,” &c., 1821, duodecimo, pp. From 1831 to 1838 she edited The Sacred Offering, a Poetical Annual.
Her own contributions were in 1845 collected under the title of Sonnets and other Poems, chiefly Devotional, Octavo, pp. x, 134.
In person, according to her Diplomate of National Board biographer, Jevons was "remarkably handsome, with very fascinating manners". She died at 37 Alfred Place, Bloomsbury on 13 November 1845.
As well as members of the Roscoe family, contributors included Anna Letitia Barbauld, Mary Anne Brown, Harriet Martineau, and Lydia Sigourney.