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
gave Mrs. Blake a positive review in the Athenæum. She suggested that Mrs. Crosland's mind seems to have matured within the last year or two, and there is a repose and simplicity...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Camilla Crosland
Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar
, Lady Blessington
Literary responses
Georgiana Craik
Geraldine Jewsbury
's review of My First Journal was damning. This, she stated, was by no means a book for the young, such as we should wish any young people of our own to take...
Reception
Georgiana Craik
Geraldine Jewsbury
's Athenæum review found the book somewhat stilted and almost too carefully written. The author is throughout too self-conscious, and the circumspection, excellent virtue as it is, destroys the freedom of motion.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1573 (1857): 1586
Reception
Georgiana Craik
Jewsbury
only had to wait two years for GC
's next novel, and when it came out she found it on the whole, an improvement on Miss Craik's first work.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1637 (1859): 354
Literary responses
Georgiana Craik
Jewsbury
found Hildred (whom she refers to as Hilda throughout her review) a well conceived character: The stately, accomplished, high-spirited, poor relative, with her Bohemian instincts and undisciplined character, her genius, waywardness, and wild, good...
Reception
Georgiana Craik
Geraldine Jewsbury
was quite scathing in her review of the novel for the Athenæum, published early the next year. She wrote that Miss Craik has talent, but she is . . . destitute of...
Textual Production
Eliza Cook
This was priced at only a penny halfpenny, to attract popular readership.
Gleadle, Kathryn. The Early Feminists. Macmillan.
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It enjoyed circulation figures of 50,000 to 60,000—slightly higher than those of Dickens's Household Words—even though that was only a fraction...
According to Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum, the author loves to play with sharp tools, but the sword of Justice proves itself too heavy for her handling.
Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press.
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However, many disagreed; a reviewer for...
Literary responses
Caroline Clive
This novel seems to have divided the critics. Geraldine Jewsbury
's Athenæum review declared that it had no story to tell, and none is told, and wondered why the book should have been sent out...
Literary responses
Georgiana Chatterton
The volumes were reviewed for the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury
, who deplored the lack of skill used in presenting an idea of a freshness and originality which not even the awkwardness of the narrative...
Literary responses
Georgiana Chatterton
Country Coteries was reviewed for the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury
.
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
Georgiana Chatterton
This work too was reviewed for the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury
.
Textual Production
Georgiana Chatterton
Geraldine Jewsbury
provided comments and suggestions before the book was published. Sending the manuscript back on 9 February, she gave it as her view that it was worth publication.
“The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
