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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
.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Amelia B. Edwards | Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing this novel for the Athenæum, welcomed a new writer onto the literary scene and expressed the hope of seeing more of her. Her short notice praised Edwards for writing of... |
| 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 | Anna Eliza Bray | The Good St. Louis and His Times was recommended to readers by the Athenæum. Although reviewer Geraldine Jewsbury
lamented the book's scarcity of dates, Athenæum. J. Lection. 2205 (1870): 158 |
| Literary responses | Georgiana Chatterton | This work too was reviewed for the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury
. |
| Literary responses | Amelia B. Edwards | Again the Athenæum reviewer was Geraldine Jewsbury
. She liked the novel, but her description gives an impression of mediocrity. It was, she said, slight, but very readable and interesting . . . . good... |
| Literary responses | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Applauding JFLW
's skills as a translator did not stop Athenæum reviewer Geraldine Jewsbury
from calling the novel a fatal concatenation of madness, badness, and general inconvenience. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1860 (1863): 810 |
| Literary responses | Emma Robinson | Geraldine Jewsbury
reviewed it for the Athenæum. |
| Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | This fourth novel was also poorly received. The Athenæum reviewer, Geraldine Jewsbury
, found in it a monotonous unreality which fatigues the reader to no purpose. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1429 (1855): 313 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 | Rhoda Broughton | For Geraldine Jewsbury
(who had originally read the manuscript of Not Wisely, but Too Well for Bentley's
), the anonymous author's gender was supposedly self-evident: That the author is not a young woman, but a... |
| Literary responses | Emma Robinson | Its fascination with poisoning, topical criminality, and female villainy within the domestic sphere places this story squarely in the midst of the sensation novel phenomenon. The Athenæum review (this time written by Geraldine Jewsbury
... |
| Literary responses | Caroline Clive | According to Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum, the author loves to play with sharp tools, but the sword of Justice proves itself too heavy for her handling. qtd. in Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press, 1932. 125 |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Lewes
, who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press, 1954–1978, 9 vols. 3: 10 |
| Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | This work's simplicity appealed to Geraldine Jewsbury
, the reviewer for the Athenæum. She noted that it was a charming and touching story, wrought from the humblest and simplest of materials; but the interest... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Emma Robinson | Geraldine Jewsbury
, again reviewing ER
for the Athenæum, this time made no reference of any kind to her gender. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1947 (1865): 233 |
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