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 .
Head-and-shoulders photograph of Geraldine Jewsbury. She is wearing a dark, hooded cloak, with a light lace collar and a rose-shaped fastener. Her dark wavy hair is pulled back. Her full signature is reproduced underneath: "Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury".

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Literary responses 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...
Reception Julia Kavanagh
Geraldine Jewsbury defended her: The Hobbies is, on the whole, the most foolish novel we have ever read: its publication is an insult to the public; and that Miss Kavanagh should have strictly refused to...
Literary responses 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.
Reception Julia Kavanagh
Jewsbury , again reviewing in the Athenæum, called this work a pleasant contribution to the literature of the times.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1826 (1862): 528
She continued (folding together the woman writer with her work in a...
Textual Features Julia Kavanagh
Mabel or Queen Mab, the novel's heroine, is a young orphan, alone on the street with a large sum of money in her pocket, when she is taken in by John Ford, a man...
Literary responses Annie Keary
Reviewing for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury evinced some impatience with the plot. She doubted that women in real life could be so exaggeratedly self-sacrificing, and flatly denied that a man in real life could...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Ann Kelty
MAK quotes Geraldine Jewsbury and Maria Edgeworth , and remarks that although unmarried herself she has observed what goes wrong in marriage: she traces difficulties between couples to the demand for too much feeling. The...
Literary responses Fanny Aikin Kortright
Geraldine Jewsbury 's review in the Athenæum was merciless (although she guessed the gender of the author). She called the novel an eminently vulgar book, written apparently with great ease and satisfaction to herself.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1647 (1859): 675
Literary responses Caroline Leakey
Geraldine Jewsbury 's review in the Athenæum was extremely positive. She praised the book as written with great force and earnestness, saying that even the hardened novel readers and stony-hearted critics at the Athenæumhave...
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 Florence Marryat
Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this novel for the Athenæum, made no attempt to hide her irritation with it. She observed that the ideas of women on points of morals and ethics seem in a...
Publishing Harriet Martineau
HM seems to have considered the wide circulation of Dickens 's Household Words too good an opportunity for influence to be passed up. Among the stories she contributed were Woodruffe the Gardener, The People...
Textual Production Frances Notley
FN published Olive Varcoe, A Novel under her pseudonym Francis Derrick.
The earliest edition listed in OCLC WorldCat is a Boston one of 1870 (followed by a Toronto edition in 1871). Neither the British Library
Publishing Ouida
The success of Ouida's Strathmore had led publisher RichardBentley to consider luring her from Chapman and Hall ; while Under Two Flags was still in manuscript, he commissioned a reader's report from Geraldine Jewsbury
Literary responses Ouida
Editorial reader Geraldine Jewsbury , commissioned by RichardBentley to report on this novel at its manuscript stage, wrote scathingly (on 29 December 1865) that it was not a story that will do any man...

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