{{short description|English poet, author, and educator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox writer | name=Marion Hartog | image=Marion_Hartog.png | image_size=250px | caption= | signature=Marion_Hartog_signature.png | native_name= | native_name_lang= | pseudonym= | birth_name=Marion Moss | birth_date={{birth date|1821|10|22|df=y}} | birth_place=Portsmouth, England | death_date={{death date and age|1907|10|29|1821|10|22|df=y}} | death_place=Kilburn, London, England | resting_place= | occupation= | language= | residence= | alma_mater= | genre=Poetry, fiction | subject= | movement=Romanticism | notableworks= | spouse={{marriage|Alphonse Hartog|1845|1904|end=d}}{{r|archivesisraelites}} | children=Héléna Darmesteter<br>Marcus Hartog<br>Numa Hartog<br>Philip Hartog | relatives=Celia Levetus (sister)<br>Hertha Ayrton (niece)<br>Ada Ballin (niece){{r|youngisrael}} | awards= | years_active= }}

'''Marion Moss Hartog''' (22 October 1821{{spnd}}29 October 1907) was an English Jewish poet, author, and educator. She was the editor of the first Jewish women's periodical, ''The Jewish Sabbath Journal''.{{r|jwa}}

==Biography== ===Early life=== Marion Moss was born at Portsmouth on 22 October 1821, one of twelve children of Amelia ({{nee|Solomons}}) and Joseph Moss.{{r|EJ}} Her great-grandfather was one of the founders of the Portsmouth Jewish community, and her grandmother, Sarah Davids, was the first Jewish child born in Portsmouth.{{r|youngisrael}} Moss was educated by her parents, and at an early age began with her sister Celia the composition of poems and stories.{{r|EJ}}

In 1838 the sisters published by subscription a book of poems entitled ''Early Efforts'', influenced in part by classical Jewish texts and the works of Late-Romantic female poets like Felicia Hemans and L.E.L.{{r|valman}} Among other poems, the volume includes various laments for Jerusalem and a narrative documentary of the York Massacre of 1190, as well as thematically-non-Jewish poems such as ''The Battle of Bannockburn'' and ''Amy Robsart's Complaint to the Earl of Leicester''.{{r|branch}} The book was successful enough for a second edition to be called for the following year.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}

===Career=== In 1840 she and Celia published three volumes of tales entitled ''The Romance of Jewish History'', along the lines of Leitch Ritchie's ''Romance of French History''.{{r|efron}} Each chapter consisted of a "Historical Summary" of some particular period of Jewish history, followed by a story which the authors had woven round the principal events. Among the subscribers to the work were Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (to whom it was dedicated), Lord Palmerston, and Sir Moses Montefiore.{{r|youngisrael}}{{r|palgrave}} These volumes were followed by ''Tales of Jewish History'' (1843).{{r|calisch}}

By this time, Moss was engaged in literary work for different publications. She contributed "The Gift and the Loan," and other tales, to the ''Bradford Observer'', which were afterwards reproduced by Isaac Leeser in the ''Occident''. She also contributed to the ''Metropolitan Magazine'', and subsequently the ''Jewish Chronicle'' and ''Jewish World''.{{r|JE}}

A little later Moss went to London and gained a livelihood as a teacher.{{r|JE}} In August 1845, she married Paris-born Alphonse Hartog, with whom she had been taking French lessons, and shortly after her marriage established a boarding and day school for young children, which she continued to conduct until her retirement in 1884.{{r|JE}} Hartog's pupils included her niece Sarah Marks,{{r|harris}} who moved in with the Hartog family upon the death of her father in 1861.{{r|sciencemuseum}}{{r|odnb_hartog}}

===''The Jewish Sabbath Journal''=== In early 1855, Hartog founded the first Jewish women's periodical, ''The Jewish Sabbath Journal; A Penny and Moral Magazine for the Young'', consisting of stories, verses, and religious addresses.{{r|shahaf}}{{r|odnb_levetus}} The disapproval of Abraham Benisch, however, precluded her from publishing notices in ''The Jewish Chronicle'', and subscriptions soon fell off.{{r|galchinsky2018}} The journal's fourteenth and final issue was published on 8 June 1855, and ended with the poem "On the Death of My Beloved Child".{{r|jewishwomen}}

===Later life and death=== [[File:Grave of Alphonse and Marion Hartog.png|thumb|250px|Grave of Marion and Alphonse Hartog at Willesden Jewish Cemetery]] Hartog wrote little for the remaining 52 years of her life.{{r|EJ}} She died on 29 October 1907 at her home in Kilburn, London, at the age of eighty-six.{{r|jwa}} Many of her children were eminent. Of her sons, Numa Edward Hartog was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge; Marcus and Sir Philip Hartog were distinguished men of science. Her daughters were Héléna Arsène Darmesteter, the portrait-painter, and Cécile Hartog, the composer and pianist.{{r|palgrave}}{{r|JE}}

==Partial bibliography== * {{cite book|first1=Celia and Marion|last1=Moss|title=Early Efforts; A Volume of Poems, by the Misses Moss, of the Hebrew Nation, Aged 18 and 16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6hdhAAAAcAAJ|location=Portsmouth|publisher=Whittaker & Co.|date=1839|edition=2nd}} * {{cite book |last1=Moss |first1=Celia and Marion|title=The Romance of Jewish History |publisher=Saunders & Otley |location=London |date=1840|volume=1–3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gJAEAAAAQAAJ}} * {{cite book |last1=Moss |first1=Celia and Marion|title=Tales of Jewish History |publisher=Miller & Field|volume=1–3 |location=London |date=1843 |url=https://archive.org/details/talesofjewishhis01mossiala}}

==References== {{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Hartog, Marion|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7291-hartog-marion|first1=Joseph|last1=Jacobs|first2=Goodman|last2=Lipkind|volume=6|page=245}} {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=JE>{{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Hartog, Marion|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7291-hartog-marion|first1=Joseph|last1=Jacobs|first2=Goodman|last2=Lipkind|volume=6|page=245|no-prescript=1}}</ref> <ref name=youngisrael>12px {{cite magazine|date=March 1898|title=Jewesses of To-day: Marion Hartog|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8BE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA185|pages=185–197|magazine=Young Israel: A Monthly Magazine|volume=2|number=13}}</ref> <ref name=odnb_hartog>{{cite encyclopedia|first=Elizabeth J.|last=Morse|title=Hartog, Sir Philip Joseph|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33742|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|date=2004}}</ref> <ref name=archivesisraelites>{{cite news|title=Nouvelles diverses|newspaper=Archives Israélites: Recueil politique et religieux|location=Paris|volume=56|number=35|date=29 August 1895|language=fr|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3EpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA279}}</ref> <ref name=efron>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Гартог, Марион|lang=ru|encyclopedia=Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary|volume=6|year=1910|page=189}}</ref> <ref name=odnb_levetus>{{cite encyclopedia|first=Michael|last=Galchinsky|title=Levetus [née Moss], Celia|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/59417|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|date=2004|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-59417|url-access=subscription}}</ref> <ref name=jwa>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Marion Hartog|first=Michael|last=Galchinsky|encyclopedia=Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia|date=2009|publisher=Jewish Women's Archive|access-date=24 September 2020|url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hartog-marion}}</ref> <ref name=galchinsky2018>{{cite book | last=Galchinsky | first=Michael | title=The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England | publisher=Wayne State University Press | year=2018 | isbn=978-0-8143-4445-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DmZwDwAAQBAJ|doi=10.1353/book.67406}}</ref> <ref name=jewishwomen>{{cite book|chapter=Engendering Liberal Jews: Jewish Women in Victorian England|first=Michael|last=Galchinsky|title=Jewish Women in Historical Perspective|edition=2nd|editor-first=Judith R.|editor-last=Baskin|location=Detroit|publisher=Wayne State University Press|date=1998|isbn=978-0-8143-2713-5|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ASw5HwZrMNYC&pg=PA208|pages=208–226}}</ref> <ref name=harris>{{cite thesis |last=Harris|first=Emma Tanya|date=2007|title=Anglo-Jewry's experience of secondary education from the 1830s until 1920|type=Thesis|publisher=University College London|oclc=1006088362|url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1444779/1/U592088.pdf}}</ref> <ref name=EJ>{{cite EJ|title=Moss, Celia (1819–1873) and Marion (1821–1907)|first=Traci M.|last=Klass|volume= |page= |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/moss-celia-1819-1873-and-marion-1821-1907}}</ref> <ref name=branch>{{cite journal|last=Weisman|first=Karen|title=Anglo-Jewish Culture and the Condition of England: The Poetry of Marion and Celia Moss|journal=BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History|url=http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=karen-weisman-anglo-jewish-culture-and-the-condition-of-england-the-poetry-of-marion-and-celia-moss|date=June 2013}}</ref> <ref name=palgrave>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Hartog (née Moss), Marion|page=404|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&pg=PA |editor1-last=Rubinstein|editor1-first=William D.|editor1-link=William Rubinstein|editor2-last=Jolles|editor2-first=Michael A.|editor3-last=Rubinstein|editor3-first=Hillary L.| encyclopedia=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=London|year=2011|isbn=978-0-230-30466-6|oclc=793104984}}</ref> <ref name=shahaf>{{cite journal|first=Michal|last=Shahaf|title=The Jewish Sabbath Journal and Its Friends and Subscribers in the Anglo-Jewish Community in 1855 / עיתון השבת היהודי, ידידיו ומנוייו בקהילה האנגלית-יהודית בשנת 1855|trans-title=The Jewish Sabbath Journal and Its Friends and Subscribers in the Anglo-Jewish Community in 1855|language=he|jstor=23922591|pages=88–99|journal=Kesher|number=46|date=Spring 2014|url=http://humanities1.tau.ac.il/shalom_rosenfeld/images/46-heb/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%9C_%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%A3_1.pdf}}</ref> <ref name=calisch>{{cite book|title=The Jew in English Literature, as Author and as Subject|first=Edward N.|last=Calisch|location=Richmond, Va.|publisher=The Bell Book and Stationery Co.|date=1909|oclc=1135887570|url=https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:1-104420}}</ref> <ref name=sciencemuseum>{{cite journal|first=Elizabeth|last=Bruton|date=Autumn 2018|issue=10|journal=Science Museum Group Journal|title=The Life and Material Culture of Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923): Suffragette, Physicist, Mathematician and Inventor|volume=10|doi=10.15180/181002/002|url=http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/browse/issue-10/the-life-and-material-culture-of-hertha-ayrton/}}</ref> <ref name=valman>{{cite book|last1=Valman |first1=Nadia |title=Jewish Women Writers in Britain |publisher=Wayne State University Press |date=2014 |isbn=978-0-8143-3914-5|location=Detroit | oclc=903760938 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0RwBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA38|pages=38–41}}</ref> }}

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