Geraldine Jewsbury

22 August 1812 - 23 September 1880

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 .

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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 Jewsbury praised Dorothy Firebrace as a clever, vigorous, effective novel, rough...
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. Margaret Oliphant
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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