Publishing |
Rhoda Broughton |
It was a request from Bentley's
for rewriting (following a vehemently negative report on Not Wisely, but Too Well in manuscript from reader Geraldine Jewsbury
) that caused RB
's second-written novel to appear in...
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Publishing |
George Eliot |
The first number of the Westminster Review to appear under her anonymous (and unpaid) editorship was that of January 1852, which was also the first under John Chapman
's ownership. One of her own contributions...
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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
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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...
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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...
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Reception |
George Sand |
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Reception |
Julia Kavanagh |
Jewsbury
, again reviewing in the Athenæum, called this work a pleasant contribution to the literature of the times. She continued (folding together the woman writer with her work in a...
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Reception |
Georgiana Craik |
Geraldine Jewsbury
's Athenæum review found the book somewhat stilted and almost too carefully written. The author is throughout too self-conscious, and the circumspection, excellent virtue as it is, destroys the freedom of motion.
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Reception |
Georgiana Craik |
Jewsbury
only had to wait two years for GC
's next novel, and when it came out she found it on the whole, an improvement on Miss Craik's first work.
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Reception |
Georgiana Craik |
Geraldine Jewsbury
was quite scathing in her review of the novel for the Athenæum, published early the next year. She wrote that Miss Craik has talent, but she is . . . destitute of...
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Reception |
Charlotte Riddell |
The Athenæum review, by Geraldine Jewsbury
, saw CR
's release of her actual name as a major literary event. But she thought the novel itself not up to CR's best standard. She found in...
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Reception |
Charlotte Riddell |
The Athenæum reviewer for this novel—again Geraldine Jewsbury
—thought that CR
was back on form in this better-structured, more clearly narrated novel. She admired the way that Heather's character is seen in action, and complained...
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Reception |
Maria Jane Jewsbury |
Geraldine Jewsbury
made an attempt to compile her sister
's works into a memorial volume. Ultimately, she could not complete the project because the writings were in the hands of MJJ
's husband
, who...
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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...
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Residence |
Maria Jane Jewsbury |
After their wedding MJJ
and her husband
moved to London, where they stayed at 18 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, until it was time to leave for India. They stayed at the house of Miss Darby
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