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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Frances Browne | Geraldine Jewsbury
, writing for the Athenæum, presumed the author of The Hidden Sin to be male, and congratulated him on an ingenuity of invention which distinguishes it from the ordinary run of sensation... |
| Fictionalization | Frances Burney | Bibliographer James Raven
notes a crescendo in novelistic echoes of FB
's works during the 1780s. Burney's brother Charles
, for instance, noted borrowings from both Evelina and Cecilia in his review for the Monthly... |
| Literary responses | Josephine Butler | In her review of the collection for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury
called Butler's introduction a charming composition . . . marked by a pathetic dignity; eloquent, earnest and strong, and wrote that it successfully... |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Virginia Woolf
declared in Geraldine
and Jane (in The Second Common Reader) that JWC
's letters owe their incomparable brilliancy to the hawk-like swoop and descent of her mind upon facts. Woolf, Virginia, and Virginia Woolf. “Geraldine and Jane”. The Second Common Reader, Hogarth Press, pp. 186-01. 198 |
| death | Jane Welsh Carlyle | She had planned to host a tea-party whose guests were to include Geraldine Jewsbury
, John Ruskin
, the J. A. Froude
and his second wife
, and Margaret Oliphant
. Ruskin
was not told... |
| Textual Production | Jane Welsh Carlyle | From her youth to her death JWC
was a prolific letter-writer: more than three thousand of her letters survive. Christianson, Aileen. “Jane Welsh Carlyle’s Private Writing Career”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 232-45. 232 |
| Textual Production | Jane Welsh Carlyle | In May of 1892, a selection of the letters which JWC
had written during the 1840s to Amelie Bölte
(a German governess whom she had befriended) were published in the New Review. Carlyle, Jane Welsh. “Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Amely Bölte, 1843-1849”. New Review, Vol. 6 , pp. 608-16. Hanson, Lawrence, and Elisabeth Hanson. Necessary Evil: The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Octagon Books. 289, 303 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Thomas Carlyle | In April 1866, Jane Carlyle
died during a coach ride in Hyde Park. TC
was healing a sprained ankle in Edinburgh and could not immediately return. Geraldine Jewsbury
was called on to identify the... |
| 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. Her name is given as Dewsbury... |
| Literary responses | Caroline Clive | 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. 125 |
| 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... |
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