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
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
Ellen Wood
In her review for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury
found the novel interesting despite its didactic aim, and suggested that the authoress might write a very good novel if left to follow what whist-players call...
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...
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
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
Sarah Williams
Geraldine Jewsbury
wrote a review of Twilight Hours for the Athenæum in which she describes SW
's work as promising, but unfulfilled and melancholy. The review explains that her life . . . seems to...
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...
Literary responses
Augusta Webster
Dramatic Studies as a whole was acclaimed by reviewers. A reviewer in the Westminster Review of October 1866 wrote that Mrs. Webster shows not only originality, but what is nearly as rare, trained intellect and...
Literary responses
Sophie Veitch
Geraldine Jewsbury
's review in the Athenæum praised the novel, while it surprisingly downplayed its exciting aspects, arguing that it does not degenerate into anything morbid or sensational. She found it interesting and the subject...
Friends, Associates
Sarah Tytler
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.
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...
Textual Production
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan
published Passages from My Autobiography, edited by Geraldine Jewsbury
from her diaries and letters.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
239
Textual Production
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Lady Morgan's Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence was published in two volumes by W. H. Allen
, edited by W. Hepworth Dixon
and Geraldine Jewsbury
.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
prelims
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.
1832 (6 December 1862): 725-8
Friends, Associates
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Closest to her in her last years were her niece Sydney
(now widowed) and also Geraldine Jewsbury
, who became her amanuensis and helper in the task of sorting through the letters and papers of...
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.