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
.
Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing for the Athenæum, called this novel intrepid. But, she wrote, [s]ensational beyond the usual high-water mark, it overflows all the banks and bounds of probability.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2098 (1868): 54
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
Mary Anne Barker
Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing this book for the Athenæum, expressed her delight and hoped for the future appearance of analogous books for Easter, or a birthday, or any day and every day all the...
Literary responses
Mary Anne Barker
This was the only book by MAB
to have bad reviews, including one in the Times.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press.
169-70
(Geraldine Jewsbury
reviewed it for the Athenæum.) Betty Gilderdale
nevertheless finds the stories well constructed...
Literary responses
Matilda Betham-Edwards
Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing this book for the Athenæum early the next year, was not exactly encouraging. She guessed the author's gender correctly, and judged the novel a pale imitation of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane...
Literary responses
Matilda Betham-Edwards
The Athenæum, which in later years was often a less than generous commentator on MBE
's work, gave Now or Never the first of its truly crushing responses. Geraldine Jewsbury
, writing anonymously, began,...
Family and Intimate relationships
Clementina Black
The marriage of CB
's mother, then Clara Patten
, to David Black in 1849 was made against her father's wishes. The marriage effectively ended Clara's participation in intellectual and artistic circles, which had included...
Literary responses
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum recognised a shift of generic gears in The Lady's Mile, away from the sensation novel towards the didactic novel of manners and morals. But she still considered this parable...
Literary responses
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Athenæum review of Charlotte's Inheritance, written by Geraldine Jewsbury
, expressed revulsion at the coarse reality
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2108 (1868): 418
which Jewsbury said MEB
had left naked, bare and ugly, without even the mellowing...
Literary responses
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum found Eleanor's Victory inferior to Lady Audley's Secret or Aurora Floyd. She regretted that MEB
had succumbed to the taste for excitement and novelty and thus bartered for the...
Literary responses
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Geraldine Jewsbury
's Athenæum review praised the author's dramatic abilities and her convincing dialogue.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1982 (1865): 537
Literary responses
Anna Eliza Bray
The Good St. Louis and His Times was recommended to readers by the Athenæum. Although reviewer Geraldine Jewsbury
lamented the book's scarcity of dates,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2205 (1870): 158
she noted that the author had succeeded...
Publishing
Rhoda Broughton
It was a request from Bentley's
for rewriting (following a vehemently negative report on Not Wisely, but Too Well in manuscript from reader Geraldine Jewsbury
) that caused RB
's second-written novel to appear in...
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...
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...
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...
Timeline
2 January 1828: The first issue of the Athenæum, founded...
14 March 1856: A petition for Reform of the Married Women's...
National or international item
14 March 1856
A petitionfor Reform of the Married Women's Property Law, organized by the Married Women's Property Committee
and signed by many prominent women, was presented to both Houses of Parliament.
By mid-April 1856: Frances Margaret Taylor published as a Lady...
Women writers item
By mid-April 1856
Frances Margaret Taylor
published as a Lady VolunteerEastern Hospitals and English Nurses: the Narrative of Twelve Months' Experience in the Hospitals of Koulali and Scutari.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
1885: Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady...
Writing climate item
1885
Actress Helen Faucit
(who had become Lady Martin when her husband was knighted in 1880) published On Some of Shakespeare
's Female Characters, a collection of essays that first appeared in Blackwood's.
Texts
Jewsbury, Geraldine, and John Absolon. Angelo; or, The Pine Forest in the Alps. Grant and Griffith, 1856.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Constance Herbert. Hurst and Blackett, 1855.
Ireland, Annie Elizabeth et al. “Introduction”. Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle, Longmans, Green, 1892, p. v - xviii.
Jewsbury, Geraldine, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Jewsbury. The Collected Writings of Geraldine Jewsbury (1812-1880). Adam Matthew, 1994.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen, 1862.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Marian Withers. Colburn, 1851.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Right or Wrong. Hurst and Blackett, 1859.
Jewsbury, Geraldine, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editor Ireland, Annie Elizabeth, Longmans, Green, 1892.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. The Half Sisters. Chapman and Hall, 1848.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. The History of an Adopted Child. Grant and Griffith, 1853.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. The Sorrows of Gentility. Hurst and Blackett, 1856.
