Maria Polack
Maria Polack | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Teacher of music and poetry |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable works | Fiction without Romance (1830) |
Maria Polack (fl. 19th century) was an English Jewish novelist and educator. Her father, Ephraim Polack, was a prominent member of the Great Synagogue of London,[1] and her niece, Elizabeth Polack, was the first Jewish woman melodramatist in England.[2]
In 1830 Polack published by subscription the two-volume anti-romance Fiction without Romance, or The Locket Watch, which focuses on the importance of female education and respecting religious and class differences.[3][4] The novel depicts a gentile family in Devonshire, most notably Eliza Desbro, who encounters a sympathetic Jewish family after discovering her status as a bastard.[5][6] The 120 subscribers of Polack's book included John Braham (two copies), Mrs Nathan Rothschild (five copies), and members of the Goldsmid family (six copies).[7]
Bibliography
- Polack, Maria (1830). Fiction Without Romance; or The Locket-Watch. London: Effingham Wilson.
References
- ^ Picciotto, James (1875). Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History. London: Trübner & Co. p. 232. OCLC 186884797.
- ^ Hartley, Lucy; Batchelor, Jennie (2018). The History of British Women's Writing, 1830–1880. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-137-58465-6.
- ^ Galchinsky, Michael (1996). The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England. Wayne State University Press. p. 100. 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.
- ^ Scrivener, Michael (2011). Jewish Representation in British Literature 1780-1840: After Shylock. Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 133. doi:10.1057/9780230120020. ISBN 978-1-349-28741-3. OCLC 951509609.
- ^ Kaufman, Heidi (2011). "England's Jewish Renaissance: Maria Polack's Fiction Without Romance (1830) in Context". In Spector, Sheila A. (ed.). Romanticism/Judaica: A Convergence of Cultures. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Company. p. 69–84. ISBN 978-0-7546-6880-0.
- ^ Conway, David (2007). "John Braham—From Meshorrer to Tenor". Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England. 41. London: Jewish Historical Society of England: 37–61. JSTOR 29780093.
