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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Geraldine Jewsbury
's stay with the Carlyles at their home in Chelsea marked the beginning of her lifelong friendship with JWC
. Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Jane Welsh Carlyle: A New Selection of Her Letters. Editor Bliss, Trudy, Victor Gollancz. 114-15 |
| Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | MAK
quotes Geraldine Jewsbury
and Maria Edgeworth
, and remarks that although unmarried herself she has observed what goes wrong in marriage: she traces difficulties between couples to the demand for too much feeling. The... |
| 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,... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | Jewsbury
gave Behind the Scenes an unfavourable review in the Athenæum for alleged dullness, malignity, and vulgarity. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1381 (1854): 460 Athenæum. J. Lection. 1381 (1854): 460 |
| 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... |
| 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 | Florence Marryat | Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing this novel for the Athenæum, made no attempt to hide her irritation with it. She observed that the ideas of women on points of morals and ethics seem in a... |
| Literary responses | Camilla Crosland | 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... |
| 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. 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, 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 | Matilda Hays | Geraldine Jewsbury
simultaneously praised and criticised MH
, claiming that the novel contained graceful thoughts and good sentiments scattered through this story, making us feel that the author is wiser than her book. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1992 (1865): 920 |
| 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 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Geraldine Jewsbury
's Athenæum review praised the author's dramatic abilities and her convincing dialogue. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1982 (1865): 537 |
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