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 .
Head-and-shoulders photograph of Geraldine Jewsbury. She is wearing a dark, hooded cloak, with a light lace collar and a rose-shaped fastener. Her dark wavy hair is pulled back. Her full signature is reproduced underneath: "Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury".

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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.
Her name is given as Dewsbury...
Textual Production Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
SOLM was, throughout her career, torn between the feminine, impulsive, emotional aspect of herself and the learned, even pedantic aspect. She early confided in Alicia Lefanu that the most powerful element in her complex, powerful...
Textual Features Ellen Wood
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...
Textual Features Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
Since its action begins some years before the Slavery Abolition Act or Emancipation Bill (which received royal assent on 28 August 1833 and came into effect on 1 August 1834), slavery is one of this...
Textual Features Julia Kavanagh
Mabel or Queen Mab, the novel's heroine, is a young orphan, alone on the street with a large sum of money in her pocket, when she is taken in by John Ford, a man...
Textual Features Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
The story revolves around a villainous husband, Mr Ponsonby Ferrars, dubbed by reviewer Geraldine Jewsburya social ogre of the present day, with an unfortunate lawful wife whom he once married in a moment of...
Textual Features Maria Jane Jewsbury
Monica Correa Fryckstedt suggests that MJJ 's interest in religious doubt may have influenced her sister 's later novels, as well as those by Mary Augusta Ward .
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
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, No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73.
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Textual Features Matilda Hays
Gender roles are explored in a range of ways throughout Adrienne Hope. Lord Charles's sophisticated sister has spent considerable time with men: her experience makes her wary of protestations of love. The woman writer...
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...
Residence Maria Jane Jewsbury
After their wedding MJJ and her husband moved to London, where they stayed at 18 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, until it was time to leave for India. They stayed at the house of Miss Darby
Reception Julia Kavanagh
Jewsbury , again reviewing in the Athenæum, called this work a pleasant contribution to the literature of the times.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1826 (1862): 528
She continued (folding together the woman writer with her work in a...
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
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...
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...

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