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'''Ebenezer Jones''' (20 January 1820 – 1860) wrote a good deal of [[poetry]] of very unequal merit, but at his best shows a true poetic vein. He was befriended by [[Robert Browning|Browning]] and [[Christina Rossetti|Rossetti]].
==Life==
He was born in Canonbury Square, [[Islington]] on 20 January 1820. His father was of Welsh background; his mother, Hannah Sumner, was of an Essex family. They were strict Calvinists. His father died, and at 17 he was a clerk in a city firm connected with the tea-trade.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Jones, Ebenezer|volume=30}}</ref>
Jones was for a short time a follower of [[Robert Owen]]. He assisted his friend [[W. J. Linton]] with political journalism, and worked for the radical publishers [[John Cleave]] and [[Henry Hetherington]]. He went down with [[tuberculosis|consumption]], and died on 14 September 1860.<ref name="DNB"/>
==Works==
Jones as a poet was influenced by [[Percy Shelley]] and [[Thomas Carlyle]], and wrote in an exaggerated style. ''Studies of Sensation and Event''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jones |url=https://archive.org/details/studiessensatio00jonegoog |first=Ebenezer |title=Studies of Sensation and Event |publisher=Charles Fox |year=1843 |location=England}}</ref> (1843) was a critical failure, though not with [[Bryan Waller Procter]] and [[Richard Hengist Horne]]. Three late poems, "To the Snow," "To Death," and "When the World is Burning", attracted attention.<ref name="DNB"/>
Jones also wrote a short book entitled ''The Land Monopoly: The Suffering and Demoralization Caused by It; and the Justice and Expediency of its Abolition'', published in 1849.
===Posthumous reputation===
For a while Jones was forgotten. In 1870, however, [[Dante Rossetti]] wrote in ''[[Notes and Queries]]'' commented that he would some day be disinterred. [[William Bell Scott]] agreed, and in 1878 [[Richard Herne Shepherd]] wrote a brief account of Ebenezer Jones. There were biographical papers in the ''[[Athenaeum (British magazine)|Athenæum]]'' of September and October 1878, by [[Theodore Watts]]; and in 1879 Shepherd published a nearly complete edition of ''Studies of Sensation and Event'' (with author's corrections), additional pieces, a memoir by Ebenezer's brother Sumner, and reminiscences by Linton. A proposed second volume, containing prose writings and additional poems, preserved by his friend Horace Harral (1817–1905), never appeared.<ref name="DNB"/>
==Family==
Jones married Caroline Atherstone, niece of [[Edwin Atherstone]], but they separated.<ref name="DNB"/>
==References==
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{{A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature}}
{{DNB|wstitle=Jones, Ebenezer|volume=30}}
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