Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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Susanne Howe
Standard Name: Howe, Susanne
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | Other friends and acquaintances of the Jewburys in Manchester included the journalists Alexander Ireland
and Thomas Ballantyne
, Francis Espinasse
, educational reformer William Ballantyne Hodgson
, historian William Hepworth Dixon
(whose daughter Ella
provided... |
| Literary responses | Geraldine Jewsbury | Despite GJ
's reputation among her contemporaries as a major influence on Victorian literature, her contributions as author and critic have faded into obscurity. Late in the period, Margaret Oliphant
passed her over in The... |
| Reception | Geraldine Jewsbury | Biographer Susanne Howe
criticizes editor Annie Elizabeth Ireland
for her inclusion of intimate letters, considering them all too revealing for the casual twentieth century reader who is so ready with his Freudian vocabulary. |
| Residence | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
moved from Manchester to 3 Oakley Street, King's Road, Chelsea to be near her intimate friend Jane Welsh Carlyle
. Many sources give the date of her move to Chelsea as 1854, but biographer... |
| Textual Features | Geraldine Jewsbury | Zoe reflects GJ
's own lifelong spiritual crisis. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 223-4 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 72 |
| Textual Features | Geraldine Jewsbury | The novel's setting also allows GJ
to express her opinions on industry and trade unions, staging conversations between mill owners on the education of workers and the household management of working-class women. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 113-14 |
| Textual Production | Geraldine Jewsbury | She had begun writing the novel in 1842 in collaboration with Jane Carlyle
and Elizabeth Paulet
. There is some dispute over the novel's collaborative origins. Biographer Susanne Howe
reports that GJ
worked with both... |
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Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.