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 .
Head-and-shoulders photograph of Geraldine Jewsbury. She is wearing a dark, hooded cloak, with a light lace collar and a rose-shaped fastener. Her dark wavy hair is pulled back. Her full signature is reproduced underneath: "Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury".

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Jane Welsh Carlyle
From her youth to her death JWC was a prolific letter-writer: more than three thousand of her letters survive.
Christianson, Aileen. “Jane Welsh Carlyle’s Private Writing Career”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, 1997, pp. 232-45.
232
Primary recipients of her correspondence included Thomas Carlyle, her mother Grace Welsh , her maternal...
Textual Production Jane Welsh Carlyle
In May of 1892, a selection of the letters which JWC had written during the 1840s to Amelie Bölte (a German governess whom she had befriended) were published in the New Review.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. “Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Amely Bölte, 1843-1849”. New Review, Vol.
6
, 6 May 1892, pp. 608-16.
Hanson, Lawrence, and Elisabeth Hanson. Necessary Evil: The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Octagon Books, 1975.
289, 303
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 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...
Textual Features Maria Jane Jewsbury
Monica Correa Fryckstedt suggests that MJJ 's interest in religious doubt may have influenced her sister 's later novels, as well as those by Mary Augusta Ward .
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, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1984, 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 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 George Sand
Many other British writers were strongly influenced by GS : Geraldine Jewsbury , Matilda Hays , Anne Ogle , Eliza Lynn Linton , Mathilde Blind , and, most notably, Emily and Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot
Reception Matilda Hays
Jewsbury found inartistic the innovative construction of the narrative, which opens with Lord Charles's second marriage, and then flashes back to introduce Adrienne Hope eight years earlier, so that the story of his wooing of...
Reception Maria Jane Jewsbury
Geraldine Jewsbury made an attempt to compile her sister 's works into a memorial volume. Ultimately, she could not complete the project because the writings were in the hands of MJJ 's husband , who...
Reception Julia Kavanagh
Geraldine Jewsbury defended her: The Hobbies is, on the whole, the most foolish novel we have ever read: its publication is an insult to the public; and that Miss Kavanagh should have strictly refused to...
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

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