Geraldine Jewsbury
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Standard Name: Jewsbury, Geraldine
Birth Name: Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury
During her life, Geraldine Jewsbury
wrote six novels and two books for children. Widely published in Victorian periodicals, she was a respected reviewer, editor, and translator. Her periodical publications ranged from theatre reviews, short fiction, and children's literature to articles on social issues and religion. GJ
greatly influenced the Victorian publishing industry and public taste through her position as reviewer for the Athenæum and her role as reader for publishers Richard Bentley and Son
and Hurst and Blackett
.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | Jane Welsh Carlyle | She had planned to host a tea-party whose guests were to include Geraldine Jewsbury
, John Ruskin
, the J. A. Froude
and his second wife
, and Margaret Oliphant
. Ruskin
was not told... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Jane Jewsbury | Maria's siblings were, from eldest to youngest, Thomas
(who assisted his father at the insurance company), Henry
(a druggist who marketed Jewsbury's Toothpaste and Jewsbury's Celebrated Ginger Beer), Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 30 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Jane Jewsbury | Her sister Geraldine
was her bridesmaid and Felicia Hemans
' brother-in-law, the Rev. H. Hughes
, performed the ceremony, during which MJJ
is reported to have uttered the terrible obey, with edifying distinctness. Gillett, Eric, and Maria Jane Jewsbury. “Maria Jane Jewsbury: A Memoir”. Maria Jane Jewsbury: Occasional Papers, Oxford University Press, 1932, p. xiii - lxvii. lix Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, 1877, pp. 323 - 39. 330 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 18 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Clementina Black | The marriage of CB
's mother, then Clara Patten
, to David Black in 1849 was made against her father's wishes. The marriage effectively ended Clara's participation in intellectual and artistic circles, which had included... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Thomas Carlyle | In April 1866, Jane Carlyle
died during a coach ride in Hyde Park. TC
was healing a sprained ankle in Edinburgh and could not immediately return. Geraldine Jewsbury
was called on to identify the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Garnett | Before her marriage, CG
's mother, Clara (Patten) Black
, daughter of the successful portrait-painter George Patten
, moved in artistic and intellectual circles and was a friend of Jane Welsh Carlyle
and Geraldine Jewsbury |
Fictionalization | Frances Burney | Bibliographer James Raven
notes a crescendo in novelistic echoes of FB
's works during the 1780s. Burney's brother Charles
, for instance, noted borrowings from both Evelina and Cecilia in his review for the Monthly... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
was glad to escape the storm of controversy that her novel had raised in Manchester, and to be feted in London. She already knew Mary Howitt and Geraldine Jewsbury
(who lived in Manchester). Although... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Geraldine Jewsbury
's stay with the Carlyles at their home in Chelsea marked the beginning of her lifelong friendship with JWC
. Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Jane Welsh Carlyle: A New Selection of Her Letters. Bliss, TrudyEditor , Victor Gollancz, 1950. 114-15 |
Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Hays | By her twenties, MH
was well-acquainted with several prominent figures in England's social, political, and literary scene. Her circle included Mary Howitt
, Eliza Meteyard
, William Charles Macready
, Samuel Laurence
, Geraldine Jewsbury |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Tytler | ST
's career as a writer introduced her to many leading literary figures (especially those of Scots origin) whom she entertainingly describes in Three Generations. Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray, 1911. 261-344 |
Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | CC
's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright
was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting... |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
's literary correspondents and friends included Grace Aguilar
, Joanna Baillie
(whose Beacon she recalled reading when very young), and Mary Howitt
. Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843. 238 Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley, 1836. I: 145 |
Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Closest to her in her last years were her niece Sydney
(now widowed) and also Geraldine Jewsbury
, who became her amanuensis and helper in the task of sorting through the letters and papers of... |
Timeline
2 January 1828
The first issue of the Athenæum, founded by James Silk Buckingham
, appeared.
3 June 1829
Publisher Henry Colburn
went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - 1871)
(who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley
as printers).
January 1845
Douglas Jerrold
's Shilling Magazine began publication at the Punch office; this short-lived radical journal addressed the masses of England.
December 1855
Barbara Leigh Smith
, later Bodichon, founded the Married Women's Property Committee
(sometimes called the Women's Committee) to draw up a petition for a married women's property bill.
14 March 1856
A petitionfor Reform of the Married Women's Property Law, organized by the Married Women's Property Committee
and signed by many prominent women, was presented to both Houses of Parliament.
By mid-April 1856
Frances Margaret Taylor
published as a Lady VolunteerEastern Hospitals and English Nurses: the Narrative of Twelve Months' Experience in the Hospitals of Koulali and Scutari.
British Library Catalogue.
1885
Actress Helen Faucit
(who had become Lady Martin when her husband was knighted in 1880) published On Some of Shakespeare
's Female Characters, a collection of essays that first appeared in Blackwood's.