Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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
.
This work's simplicity appealed to Geraldine Jewsbury
, the reviewer for the Athenæum. She noted that it was a charming and touching story, wrought from the humblest and simplest of materials; but the interest...
Literary responses
Georgiana Chatterton
This work too was reviewed for the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury
.
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Amelia B. Edwards
Again the Athenæum reviewer was Geraldine Jewsbury
. She liked the novel, but her description gives an impression of mediocrity. It was, she said, slight, but very readable and interesting . . . . good...
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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...
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Ellen Wood
In her review for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury
found the novel interesting despite its didactic aim, and suggested that the authoress might write a very good novel if left to follow what whist-players call...
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Anna Eliza Bray
The Good St. Louis and His Times was recommended to readers by the Athenæum. Although reviewer Geraldine Jewsbury
lamented the book's scarcity of dates,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2205 (1870): 158
she noted that the author had succeeded...
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Julia Kavanagh
Writing again for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury
continued to be pleased with JK
's work. She particularly praised the character development here, and claimed that the workmanship is good throughout, and the interest kindled...
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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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Julia Kavanagh
The collection was highly praised by Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing for the Athenæum.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1683 (1860): 133
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
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
However, many disagreed; a reviewer for...
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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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George Eliot
Lewes
, who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters,
Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press.
3: 10
was vindicated when printing after printing was called for (15,000 copies...
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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...
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press.
527
The Athenæum notice, by Geraldine Jewsbury
, was moderately favourable, but by calling it the work of a beginner,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1593 (1858): 593
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.
654 (1840): 371-2
Literary responses
Rhoda Broughton
For Geraldine Jewsbury
(who had originally read the manuscript of Not Wisely, but Too Well for Bentley's
), the anonymous author's gender was supposedly self-evident: That the author is not a young woman, but a...
