Gisborne, Maria, 1770-1836

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Epithet: friend of Shelley, wife of J Gisborne

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000064

Maria Gisborne [née James; other married name Reveley], friend of William Godwin and Mary and Percy Shelley. In her teens, she studied painting under the tutelage of Angelica Kauffman in Rome. She met William Godwin through her first husband, William Reveley, an English acrhitect with whom she had one son, Henry. When Reveley died in 1799, Maria declined multiple marriage proposals from Godwin, instead marrying John Gisborne the next year. The Gisbornes moved to Italy in 1801 and became important friends of Percy and Mary Shelley when the young couple visited them at their Leghorn home in 1818. In 1821, Maria and John returned to England, eventually retiring to Plymouth.

From the description of Maria Gisborne manuscript material : 1 item, 1832-1833 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 262559545

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referencedIn Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material : 414 items, 1815-1850 The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.
creatorOf Journal of John and Maria Gisborne; 2 May-26 Sept. 1820. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and additions, written on both sides of twenty-nine leaves of a quarto vellum-bound notebook, and on one side only of two further leaves (ff. 9b and 39). The... British Library
referencedIn Gisborne, John, d. 1836. John Gisborne manuscript material : 4 items, 1822-1833 New York Public Library System, NYPL
referencedIn Louis Arthur Holman collection of Keats iconography and related papers, 1752-1963. Houghton Library
referencedIn Abinger Papers, 1769-1937 Bodleian Library, Oxford
creatorOf Gisborne, Maria, 1770-1836. [Mrs. Gisborne journal from May 2 to Dec. 26, during their sojourn to England in 1820, with an account of those persons she saw and what they said about the Shelleys ...] Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
referencedIn Percy Bysshe Shelley manuscript material : 299 items, 1809-1822 The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.
referencedIn Mary Wollstonecraft manuscript material : 49 items, 1773-1797 The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.
creatorOf Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. Percy Bysshe Shelley manuscript material : 293 items, 1809-1822 New York Public Library System, NYPL
creatorOf Gisborne, Maria, 1770-1836. Diary, 1820. Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library
referencedIn William Godwin manuscript material : 383 items, 1778-1836 The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.
creatorOf Gisborne, Maria, 1770-1836. Maria Gisborne manuscript material : 1 item, 1832-1833 New York Public Library System, NYPL
referencedIn Sir John Bowring manuscript material : 4 items, 1822-1832 The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.
creatorOf Godwin, William, 1756-1836. William Godwin manuscript material : 338 items, 1778-1836 New York Public Library System, NYPL
creatorOf Letter from Mary Shelley to Maria Gisborne, describing P. B. Shelley's last months and the circumstances of his death by drowning and subsequent cremation; 15 Aug. 1822. ff. 1-5b. Printed in F. L. Jones, The Letters of Mary W. Shelley, vol. i, 1944, ... British Library
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associatedWith Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832. person
associatedWith Bowring, John, 1792-1872 person
associatedWith Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. person
associatedWith Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. person
associatedWith Gifford, William, 1756-1826. person
associatedWith Gisborne, J. (John), 1770-1851. person
associatedWith Gisborne, John, d. 1836. person
associatedWith Godwin, William, 1756-1836 person
associatedWith Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. person
associatedWith Holman, Louis A. (Louis Arthur), 1866-1939 person
associatedWith Keats, John, 1795-1821. person
associatedWith Reveley, Henry Willey, 1789-1875. person
associatedWith Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 person
associatedWith Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. person
associatedWith Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 person
associatedWith Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. person
Place Name Admin Code Country
London (England)
Leghorn, Italy
Great Britain
Italy
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English literature
English literature
Women
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Birth 1770

Death 1836

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