Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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
.
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's latest novel, Cleve Hall, which she published as the author of Amy Herbert, was reviewed in the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury
, who knew the identity of the author.
Virtually all...
Textual Production
Eliza Cook
This was priced at only a penny halfpenny, to attract popular readership.
Gleadle, Kathryn. The Early Feminists. Macmillan.
91
It enjoyed circulation figures of 50,000 to 60,000—slightly higher than those of Dickens's Household Words—even though that was only a fraction...
Textual Features
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
The story revolves around a villainous husband, Mr Ponsonby Ferrars, dubbed by reviewer Geraldine Jewsburya social ogre of the present day, with an unfortunate lawful wife whom he once married in a moment of...
Textual Features
Matilda Hays
Gender roles are explored in a range of ways throughout Adrienne Hope. Lord Charles's sophisticated sister has spent considerable time with men: her experience makes her wary of protestations of love. The woman writer...
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
67
, No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73.
460-1
Textual Features
Dorothy Wellesley
DW
's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington
, doyenne of the albums...
Textual Features
Ellen Wood
This novel focuses on the Godolphin family, whose home, Ashlydyat, is located in Prior's Ash, on what was formerly Church land. The Shadow of the title refers to a local superstition that whenever misfortune...
Textual Features
Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
Since its action begins some years before the Slavery Abolition Act or Emancipation Bill (which received royal assent on 28 August 1833 and came into effect on 1 August 1834), slavery is one of this...
Textual Features
Julia Kavanagh
Mabel or Queen Mab, the novel's heroine, is a young orphan, alone on the street with a large sum of money in her pocket, when she is taken in by John Ford, a man...
Residence
Maria Jane Jewsbury
After their wedding MJJ
and her husband
moved to London, where they stayed at 18 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, until it was time to leave for India. They stayed at the house of Miss Darby
Reception
Georgiana Craik
Geraldine Jewsbury
's Athenæum review found the book somewhat stilted and almost too carefully written. The author is throughout too self-conscious, and the circumspection, excellent virtue as it is, destroys the freedom of motion.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1573 (1857): 1586
Reception
Georgiana Craik
Jewsbury
only had to wait two years for GC
's next novel, and when it came out she found it on the whole, an improvement on Miss Craik's first work.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1637 (1859): 354
Reception
Georgiana Craik
Geraldine Jewsbury
was quite scathing in her review of the novel for the Athenæum, published early the next year. She wrote that Miss Craik has talent, but she is . . . destitute of...
Reception
Charlotte Riddell
The Athenæum review, by Geraldine Jewsbury
, saw CR
's release of her actual name as a major literary event. But she thought the novel itself not up to CR's best standard. She found in...
Reception
Charlotte Riddell
The Athenæum reviewer for this novel—again Geraldine Jewsbury
—thought that CR
was back on form in this better-structured, more clearly narrated novel. She admired the way that Heather's character is seen in action, and complained...
