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
.
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.
Literary responses
Emma Jane Worboise
Geraldine Jewsbury
reviewed this novel for the Athenæum.
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
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Ann Kelty
MAK
quotes Geraldine Jewsbury
and Maria Edgeworth
, and remarks that although unmarried herself she has observed what goes wrong in marriage: she traces difficulties between couples to the demand for too much feeling. The...
Intertextuality and Influence
Rhoda Broughton
RB
's satire here embraces the publishing industry and its pandering to readers' tastes. Emma's cousin Lesbia is apparently representative of a particular type of circulating-library reader; much to Emma's mortification, she likes Miching Mallecho...
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. Editor Bliss, Trudy, Victor Gollancz.
114-15
Friends, Associates
William Makepeace Thackeray
WMT
was close to both of his surviving daughters, and was particularly proud when Anne
's first publication, the article Little Scholars, which appeared anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine. He was a sociable...
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.
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...
