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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 | Sarah Stickney Ellis | It was reviewed for the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury
, who considered the topic unsuited to elevated treatment: The existence of this class is a deep and difficult problem, to be treated in sad and... |
| Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing this novel for the Athenæum, commented that GFalways writes with grace and tenderness, but she is afraid to trust herself to her own gifts. She seems to have a... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Garnett | Before her marriage, CG
's mother, Clara (Patten) Black
, daughter of the successful portrait-painter George Patten
, moved in artistic and intellectual circles and was a friend of Jane Welsh Carlyle
and Geraldine Jewsbury |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
was glad to escape the storm of controversy that her novel had raised in Manchester, and to be feted in London. She already knew Mary Howitt and Geraldine Jewsbury
(who lived in Manchester). Although... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Gaskell | This was near Greenheys Fields, where the opening of Mary Barton is set, and it was also close to the house of Geraldine Jewsbury
. The rent was expensive for the Gaskells, at £150... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Matilda Hays | By her twenties, MH
was well-acquainted with several prominent figures in England's social, political, and literary scene. Her circle included Mary Howitt
, Eliza Meteyard
, William Charles Macready
, Samuel Laurence
, Geraldine Jewsbury |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Reception | Matilda Hays | Jewsbury
found inartistic the innovative construction of the narrative, which opens with Lord Charles's second marriage, and then flashes back to introduce Adrienne Hope eight years earlier, so that the story of his wooing of... |
| Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
's literary correspondents and friends included Grace Aguilar
, Joanna Baillie
(whose Beacon she recalled reading when very young), and Mary Howitt
. Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn. 238 Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley. I: 145 |
| Textual Production | Caroline Herschel | Selections from these and CH
's other life-writings were edited as her Memoir and Correspondence in 1876. The listed editor, Mary Cornwallis Herschel
(who had married into the family), presented CH
's Recollections first (with... |
| Literary responses | Catherine Hubback | Geraldine Jewsbury
's review praised the novel as among the best of a good crop that year, noting: The story is as quiet as one of Miss Austen
's, but the characters and incidents are... |
| Literary responses | Catherine Hubback | In her review for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury
pronounced this a dreary tale. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
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