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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 | Rhoda Broughton | For Geraldine Jewsbury
(who had originally read the manuscript of Not Wisely, but Too Well for Bentley's
), the anonymous author's gender was supposedly self-evident: That the author is not a young woman, but a... |
| Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | The collection was highly praised by Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing for the Athenæum. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1683 (1860): 133 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. |
| Literary responses | Caroline Clive | According to Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum, the author loves to play with sharp tools, but the sword of Justice proves itself too heavy for her handling. Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press. 125 |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | The only extended notice of this very interesting work was William Maginn
's hatchet job in Fraser's Magazine, which took Morgan's literary inadequacy for granted, and mercilessly ridiculed both her gender and her nationality... |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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
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 |
| 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... |
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