Geraldine Jewsbury

22 August 1812 - 23 September 1880

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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Literary responses	Augusta Webster	Dramatic Studies as a whole was acclaimed by reviewers. A reviewer in the Westminster Review of October 1866 wrote that Mrs. Webster shows not only originality, but what is nearly as rare, trained intellect and...
Textual Features	Dorothy Wellesley	DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...
Literary responses	Sarah Williams	Geraldine Jewsbury wrote a review of Twilight Hours for the Athenæum in which she describes SW 's work as promising, but unfulfilled and melancholy. The review explains that her life . . . seems to...
Literary responses	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...
Publishing	Ellen Wood	The novel had been twice offered to the publishing house of Chapman and Hall , and was recommended by William Harrison Ainsworth . After their reader (novelist George Meredith ) twice rejected it, EW took...
Textual Features	Ellen Wood	This novel focuses on the Godolphin family, whose home, Ashlydyat, is located in Prior's Ash, on what was formerly Church land. The Shadow of the title refers to a local superstition that whenever misfortune...
Literary responses	Ellen Wood	Geraldine Jewsbury in the Athenæum considered The Shadow of Ashlydyatto be the best novel that Mrs. Wood has written. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1891 (1864): 119 An essay on the novel, published in The Argosy in 1895, after...
Literary responses	Ellen Wood	Geraldine Jewsbury 's Athenæum review (which began with an extended discussion of the origins of the St Martin's Eve festival) decried some of the more grotesque moments in the story, including its description of a...
Literary responses	Emma Jane Worboise	Geraldine Jewsbury reviewed this novel for the Athenæum. 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.

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