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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 | 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 | Emily Shirreff | The reviewer for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury
, declared that this was an excellent book, not only for its wise counsel on the education of women, but for the element of genial good sense... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Sewell | ES
's latest novel, Cleve Hall, which she published as the author of Amy Herbert, was reviewed in the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury
, who knew the identity of the author. Virtually all... |
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... |
Reception | George Sand | Many other British writers were strongly influenced by GS
: Geraldine Jewsbury
, Matilda Hays
, Anne Ogle
, Eliza Lynn Linton
, Mathilde Blind
, and, most notably, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
and George Eliot |
Friends, Associates | John Ruskin | JR
's social and intellectual network was extensive: amongst his acquaintances were Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Violet Hunt
, Jean Ingelow
, Flora Shaw
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
and Thomas Carlyle |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | Geraldine Jewsbury
reviewed it for the Athenæum. |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | Its fascination with poisoning, topical criminality, and female villainy within the domestic sphere places this story squarely in the midst of the sensation novel phenomenon. The Athenæum review (this time written by Geraldine Jewsbury
... |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | Geraldine Jewsbury
, again reviewing ER
for the Athenæum, this time made no reference of any kind to her gender. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1947 (1865): 233 |
Literary responses | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum saw considerable promise in the book, but blamed it for verging on a treatment of incest which ought to be . . . inadmissable for a novel. qtd. in Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages. 67 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 | Charlotte Riddell | Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing The Moors and the Fens for the Athenæum in the year after publication, judged that although it had some interest, it had nothing of nature: The whole story resembles a child's... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Riddell | Geraldine Jewsbury
reviewed this novel too for the Athenæum the year after publication, and she found it excellent . . . powerfully and carefully written, far superior to CR
's work heretofore. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1947 (1865): 233 |
Reception | Charlotte Riddell | The Athenæum review, by Geraldine Jewsbury
, saw CR
's release of her actual name as a major literary event. But she thought the novel itself not up to CR's best standard. She found in... |
Reception | Charlotte Riddell | The Athenæum reviewer for this novel—again Geraldine Jewsbury
—thought that CR
was back on form in this better-structured, more clearly narrated novel. She admired the way that Heather's character is seen in action, and complained... |
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