Maria JACKSON (1818

Events in Maria JACKSON (1818 - 1892)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1818		Maria JACKSON was born
1837	19	Birth of daughter Adeline Maria VAUGHAN
1840	22	Birth of daughter Mary Louisa FISHER
1845	27	Death of father James PATTLE (aged 70)		Note 1
1845	27	Death of mother Adeline PATTLE (aged 52)		Note 2
Jul 1846	28	Birth of daughter Julia Prinsep STEPHEN
1881	63	Death of daughter Adeline Maria VAUGHAN (aged 44)		Note 3
1887	69	Death of husband Dr. John JACKSON (aged 83)
1892	74	Maria JACKSON died

Note 1: family lore: "he was packed off home in a cask of spirits, which cask, exploding, ejected his unbottled corpse before his widow's eyes, drove her out of her wits, set the ship on fire and stranded it in Hooghly"(Bell 14)

Note 2: died on ship back to England with husband's corpse

Note 3: died just before Virginia was born, "her peculiar husband four years after"(Lee 92)

Personal Notes:

EDUCATION:

MAJOR LIFE EVENTS:

CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT:

ADULT TEMPERAMENT:
-"Mrs. Jackson's letters display the dull side of the Pattles; their silliness, their gush, their cloying sweetness, their continual demands for affection and with it a mawkish vein, a kind of tender gloating over disease and death" (Bell 17)
-"married yet another Anglo-Indian, Dr Jackson; he had a flourishing practice in Calcutta but he does not seem to have been a person of any distinction...It was her daughters who interested her...Mrs Jackson was as good as gold; but there is not one original though, very little common sense and not the slightest dexterity in the use of language in all her hundreds and hundreds of letters" (Bell 17)
-"Virginia remembered Maria Jackson as a literally stifling presence: 'my grandmother who was so beautiful and smelt so delicious but one had to take a deep breath before one kissed her or one would be suffocated=she held one so long in her arms'" (Lee 92)

ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR:

ADULT WORK HABITS:

SIGNS OF MANIA/HYPOMANIA:
-"Stiflingly dependent" (Lee 92) on Julia-had enlisted her as "confidante, helper, and nurse-companion in her perpetual quest for a rheumatism cure" (Lee 92)
-(intrusive behavior in Julia's life)-> "wrote to Julia "once,twice, sometimes three times a day and often there would be an additional telegram to her 'dear heart,' her 'lamb'" (Bell 17)

SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:
-chronic pain? "unfailing store of her own afflictions: she suffered from headaches, rheumatism, giddiness and indigestion, which she treated with morphia and chloral" (Bell 17)

PHYSICAL AILMENTS/CHRONIC ILLNESSES:
-rheumatism, headaches, chronic pain (Bell 17)
-possible hypochondria/anxiety, as implied by descriptions of her communication with her children (Lee 92)

ALCOHOL/OTHER DRUG ABUSES:

HOSPITALIZATION:

OTHER:

Source References:

1. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Auth: Quentin Bell, Publ: Mariner Books, Date: 1974

- Reference = 17 (Name, Notes)

2. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf, Auth: Hermione Lee, Publ: Vintage Books, Date: 1996

- Reference = 92 (Name, Notes)

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