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 .

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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...
Literary responses Charlotte Riddell
Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing The Moors and the Fens for the Athenæum in the year after publication, judged that although it had some interest, it had nothing of nature: The whole story resembles a child's...
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
Reviews were positive. Geraldine Jewsbury in the Athenæum said that for true artistic workmanship we think Sylvia's Lovers superior to any of Mrs Gaskell's former works.
Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge.
432
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.
1844 (28 February 1863): 291
The Examiner wrote,...
Literary responses Margaret Gatty
Geraldine Jewsbury reviewed this book for the Athenæum on 11 October 1862. Juliana Ewing wrote that like many sequels it was not equal to the first work, and bears traces of the fact that Mrs...
Literary responses Matilda Betham-Edwards
Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this book for the Athenæum early the next year, was not exactly encouraging. She guessed the author's gender correctly, and judged the novel a pale imitation of Charlotte Brontë 's Jane...
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
Literary responses Eliza Lynn Linton
Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this novel for the Athenæum, was none too complimentary. She thought the author had offered an ineffective sermon on this excellent moral: clever, as anything she writes is likely to...
Literary responses Charlotte Riddell
Geraldine Jewsbury reviewed this novel too for the Athenæum the year after publication, and she found it excellent . . . powerfully and carefully written, far superior to CR 's work heretofore.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1947 (1865): 233
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 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 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
She claimed that its ingrained coarseness manifests itself from the beginning to the end
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1381 (1854): 460
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 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...

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