Maria Polack
Maria Polack | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 31, 1787 |
| Died | January 8, 1849 (aged 61) Whitechapel |
| Occupation | Teacher of music and poetry |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable works | Fiction without Romance (1830) |
Maria Polack (31 January 1787 – 8 January 1849[1]) was an English Jewish novelist and educator. Her father, Ephraim Polack,[2] was a prominent member of the Great Synagogue of London,[3] and her niece (or perhaps daughter), Elizabeth Polack, was the first Jewish woman melodramatist in England.[4]
In 1830 Polack published by
bastard.[8][9] The one-hundred and twenty subscribers to Polack's book included John Braham (two copies), Mrs Nathan Rothschild (five copies), and members of the Goldsmid family (six copies).[10] A second, non-subscriber edition was published two years after the first edition.[11]
Bibliography
- Polack, Maria (1830). Fiction Without Romance; or The Locket-Watch. London: Effingham Wilson.
- Polack, Maria (1832) Fiction Without Romance; or The Locket-Watch. London: A. K. Newman & Co.[12]
References
- ^ "Died". The Jewish Chronicle. 12 January 1849. p. 116.
- ^ "A Hundred and One Years Old". The Jewish Chronicle. 1 March 1901. p. 19.
- OCLC 186884797.
- ISBN 978-1-137-58465-6.
- ISBN 978-0-8143-2613-8.
- ^ Kaufman, Heidi (2016). "1800-1900: Inside and Outside the Nineteenth-Century East End". BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- ^ "Books published this day". The Globe. 14 May 1830. p. 1.
- OCLC 951509609.
- ISBN 978-0-7546-6880-0.
- JSTOR 29780093.
- ^ "Just Published". Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle. 21 April 1832. p. 261.
- ^ "Advertisements". Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle. 21 April 1832. p. 262.
