| 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...
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| Literary responses |
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan |
The only extended notice of this very interesting work was William Maginn
's hatchet job in Fraser's Magazine, which took Morgan's literary inadequacy for granted, and mercilessly ridiculed both her gender and her nationality...
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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...
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| Literary responses |
Julia Stretton |
This novel attracted a chorus of praise. Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum recommended it very strongly. She found it fresh and original, in the main unpreachy, and wrote that if Margaret was a little too...
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| Literary responses |
Julia Stretton |
Geraldine Jewsbury
was far less respectful in reviewing The Valley of a Hundred Fires for the Athenæum. She allowed that the spirit of the book was refined and good and some...
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| Literary responses |
Julia Stretton |
Again Geraldine Jewsbury
provided for the Athenæum a staggeringly unfavourable review, opening with a fantastical picture of the kinds of narrow-minded, culturally impoverished people who might possibly enjoy the book. She defines the two morals...
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| Literary responses |
Harriet Smythies |
Geraldine Jewsbury
's review in the Athenæum claimed that she found the novel too bewildering . . . to follow.
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| 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...
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| 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.
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| 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...
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| Reception |
George Sand |
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| Friends, Associates |
John Ruskin |
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| 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...
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| Literary responses |
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton |
Jewsbury
gave Behind the Scenes an unfavourable review in the Athenæum for alleged dullness, malignity, and vulgarity. She claimed that its ingrained coarseness manifests itself from the beginning to the end
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| 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
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