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

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Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Gaskell
This was near Greenheys Fields, where the opening of Mary Barton is set, and it was also close to the house of Geraldine Jewsbury . The rent was expensive for the Gaskells, at £150...
Travel Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ rented a cottage outside Rhyl near St Asaph in Wales, for herself, her sister Geraldine , and her brothers, intending to cultivate her friendship with Felicia Hemans , who lived about a mile away.
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
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, No. 2, The Library, pp. 177-03.
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Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, pp. 323-39.
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Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Camilla Crosland
Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar , Lady Blessington
Textual Production Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan published Passages from My Autobiography, edited by Geraldine Jewsbury from her diaries and letters.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
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Textual Production Charles Dickens
Textual Production Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Lady Morgan's Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence was published in two volumes by W. H. Allen , edited by W. Hepworth Dixon and Geraldine Jewsbury .
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
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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.
1832 (6 December 1862): 725-8
Textual Production Caroline Herschel
Selections from these and CH 's other life-writings were edited as her Memoir and Correspondence in 1876. The listed editor, Mary Cornwallis Herschel (who had married into the family), presented CH 's Recollections first (with...
Textual Production Georgiana Chatterton
Geraldine Jewsbury provided comments and suggestions before the book was published. Sending the manuscript back on 9 February, she gave it as her view that it was worth publication.
“The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Her name is given as Dewsbury...
Textual Production Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
SOLM was, throughout her career, torn between the feminine, impulsive, emotional aspect of herself and the learned, even pedantic aspect. She early confided in Alicia Lefanu that the most powerful element in her complex, powerful...
Textual Production Frances Notley
FN published Olive Varcoe, A Novel under her pseudonym Francis Derrick.
The earliest edition listed in OCLC WorldCat is a Boston one of 1870 (followed by a Toronto edition in 1871). Neither the British Library
Textual Production Elizabeth Sewell
ES 's latest novel, Cleve Hall, which she published as the author of Amy Herbert, was reviewed in the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury , who knew the identity of the author.
Virtually all...
Textual Production Eliza Cook
This was priced at only a penny halfpenny, to attract popular readership.
Gleadle, Kathryn. The Early Feminists. Macmillan.
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It enjoyed circulation figures of 50,000 to 60,000—slightly higher than those of Dickens's Household Words—even though that was only a fraction...
Textual Production Adelaide Procter
Here AP 's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:...
Textual Production Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ published her second full-length work, a volume of Letters to the Young adapted from actual letters, some if not all addressed to her younger sister Geraldine .
It used to be thought that all...
Textual Production Jane Welsh Carlyle
From her youth to her death JWC was a prolific letter-writer: more than three thousand of her letters survive.
Christianson, Aileen. “Jane Welsh Carlyle’s Private Writing Career”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 232-45.
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Primary recipients of her correspondence included Thomas Carlyle, her mother Grace Welsh , her maternal...

Timeline

2 January 1828: The first issue of the Athenæum, founded...

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2 January 1828

The first issue of the Athenæum, founded by James Silk Buckingham , appeared.

3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...

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3 June 1829

Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - ­1871) (who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley as printers).

January 1845: Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine began...

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January 1845

Douglas Jerrold 's Shilling Magazine began publication at the Punch office; this short-lived radical journal addressed the masses of England.

December 1855: Barbara Leigh Smith, later Bodichon, founded...

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December 1855

Barbara Leigh Smith , later Bodichon, founded the Married Women's Property Committee (sometimes called the Women's Committee) to draw up a petition for a married women's property bill.

14 March 1856: A petition for Reform of the Married Women's...

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14 March 1856

A petitionfor Reform of the Married Women's Property Law, organized by the Married Women's Property Committee and signed by many prominent women, was presented to both Houses of Parliament.

By mid-April 1856: Frances Margaret Taylor published as a Lady...

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By mid-April 1856

Frances Margaret Taylor published as a Lady VolunteerEastern Hospitals and English Nurses: the Narrative of Twelve Months' Experience in the Hospitals of Koulali and Scutari.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1885: Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady...

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1885

Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady Martin when her husband was knighted in 1880) published On Some of Shakespeare 's Female Characters, a collection of essays that first appeared in Blackwood's.

Texts

Jewsbury, Geraldine, and John Absolon. Angelo; or, The Pine Forest in the Alps. Grant and Griffith, 1856.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Constance Herbert. Hurst and Blackett, 1855.
Ireland, Annie Elizabeth et al. “Introduction”. Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle, Longmans, Green, 1892, p. v - xviii.
Jewsbury, Geraldine, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Jewsbury. The Collected Writings of Geraldine Jewsbury (1812-1880). Adam Matthew, 1994.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen, 1862.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Marian Withers. Colburn, 1851.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Right or Wrong. Hurst and Blackett, 1859.
Jewsbury, Geraldine, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editor Ireland, Annie Elizabeth, Longmans, Green, 1892.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. The Half Sisters. Chapman and Hall, 1848.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. The History of an Adopted Child. Grant and Griffith, 1853.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. The Sorrows of Gentility. Hurst and Blackett, 1856.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Zoe. Chapman and Hall, 1845.