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She was influenced by the great Alexander Pope, and focused on poems about domestic and social themes with her dry humour. Though of modest social standing, Jones developed long friendships with those in aristocratic circles.
Influenced by Alexander Pope, Jones composed formal poems that engage domestic and social themes with wry humor. She published one volume during her lifetime: Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1750), which includes poems, letters, and translations.
Llyfr Taliesin: The Book of Taliesin. Peniarth MS 2. The Book of Taliesin is a small manuscript, missing its covers, and thus the beginning of the first poem; luckily, this poem is also contained in the Red Book of Hergest.
By Mary Jones. Alas, my Purse! how lean and low! My silken Purse! what art thou now! One I beheld—but stocks will fall— When both thy ends had wherewithal. When I within thy slender fence. My fortune placed, and confidence; A poet’s fortune!—not immense: Yet, mixed with keys, and coins among, Chinked to the melody of song.
Mary Jones published several poems in the 1740s, and in 1748 was preparing a collection of her letters and poems. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse , a collection of 53 poems, as well as essays and letters, was published in 1750 with 1500 subscribers and an unusually high proportion of eminent patrons.
Mary Jones (8 March 1707 – 10 February 1778) was an English poet. Biography. Jones was born in Oxford, where her father, Oliver, was a cooper. Her elder brother, named Oliver like his father, became precentor and senior chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford. Jones learnt French and Italian in childhood.
Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) is a collaborative digital collection and research project devoted to the poetry of the long eighteenth century.
