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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
.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Julia Stretton | Again Geraldine Jewsbury
provided for the Athenæum a staggeringly unfavourable review, opening with a fantastical picture of the kinds of narrow-minded, culturally impoverished people who might possibly enjoy the book. She defines the two morals... |
| Literary responses | Mary Anne Barker | This was the only book by MAB
to have bad reviews, including one in the Times. Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press. 169-70 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Athenæum. J. Lection. 1381 (1854): 460 |
| Literary responses | Camilla Crosland | Geraldine Jewsbury
gave Mrs. Blake a positive review in the Athenæum. She suggested that Mrs. Crosland's mind seems to have matured within the last year or two, and there is a repose and simplicity... |
| Literary responses | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum saw considerable promise in the book, but blamed it for verging on a treatment of incest which ought to be . . . inadmissable for a novel. Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages. 67 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 | 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 |
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