John Jones

(1774-1836 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Jones, John, b. 1774 DNB: Jones, John (b. 1774), poet LBT ID: JoJones1836 VIAF ID: 63949504 LOC ID: nr2003014043	B/BAP: 1774
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English poet and autodidact; the son of a gardener, he sent poems to Robert Southey in 1827, leading to the publication of Attempts in Verse by John Jones, an old Servant (1831).
REFERENCES TO John Jones: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 31 October 1827 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Margaret Holford Hodson, 16 November 1827 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Margaret Holford Hodson, 14 August 1828 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 Robert Southey to Margaret Holford Hodson, 20 January 1830 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Margaret Holford Hodson, 15 May 1830 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XIII. 1812-1815 Found 1: ¶ 14 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXI. 1827-1828 Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 Ch. XXXIII. 1830