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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Literary responses Caroline Scott
A brief notice in the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury was kinder: for those who like religious novels, [it] is one of the best of its class: for ourselves, we prefer it to any we have...
Literary responses Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
Elizabeth Gaskell later reported that reviews had been good.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press.
527
The Athenæum notice, by Geraldine Jewsbury , was moderately favourable, but by calling it the work of a beginner,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1593 (1858): 593
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
654 (1840): 371-2
Literary responses Caroline Clive
This novel seems to have divided the critics. Geraldine Jewsbury 's Athenæum review declared that it had no story to tell, and none is told, and wondered why the book should have been sent out...
Literary responses Sarah Stickney Ellis
It was reviewed for the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury , who considered the topic unsuited to elevated treatment: The existence of this class is a deep and difficult problem, to be treated in sad and...
Literary responses Ellen Wood
Geraldine Jewsbury in the Athenæum considered The Shadow of Ashlydyatto be the best novel that Mrs. Wood has written.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1891 (1864): 119
An essay on the novel, published in The Argosy in 1895, after...
Literary responses Frances Browne
Geraldine Jewsbury in the Athenæum called Browne's stories extremely graceful and predicted that they would rejoice the hearts of little folks who are not too proud to read about fairies.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1519 (1856): 1497
She also...
Literary responses Georgiana Fullerton
Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this novel for the Athenæum, commented that GFalways writes with grace and tenderness, but she is afraid to trust herself to her own gifts. She seems to have a...
Literary responses Harriet Smythies
Geraldine Jewsbury 's review in the Athenæum claimed that she found the novel too bewildering . . . to follow.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2070 (1867): 851
Literary responses Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
Agostino Ruffini was said to think very highly of this novel before its publication.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press.
527
Again Geraldine Jewsbury wrote the Athenæum review, and this time her praise was warm. She felt that the climactic scene...
Literary responses Ellen Wood
Geraldine Jewsbury 's Athenæum review (which began with an extended discussion of the origins of the St Martin's Eve festival) decried some of the more grotesque moments in the story, including its description of a...
Literary responses Frances Browne
Geraldine Jewsbury , writing for the Athenæum, presumed the author of The Hidden Sin to be male, and congratulated him on an ingenuity of invention which distinguishes it from the ordinary run of sensation...
Literary responses Annie Keary
Reviewing for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury evinced some impatience with the plot. She doubted that women in real life could be so exaggeratedly self-sacrificing, and flatly denied that a man in real life could...
Literary responses Ouida
Editorial reader Geraldine Jewsbury , commissioned by RichardBentley to report on this novel at its manuscript stage, wrote scathingly (on 29 December 1865) that it was not a story that will do any man...
Literary responses Hesba Stretton
The notoriously critical Geraldine Jewsbury condescendingly summarized the plot in her Athenæum review: everybody seems on the road whose end is destruction; the property is lost by speculations, and ruin is imminent, when difficulties are...
Literary responses Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
In the AthenæumGeraldine Jewsbury called the story of this book very charming and touching,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1756 (1861): 828
though the Feminist Companion considered it rather silly.

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