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 .
Head-and-shoulders photograph of Geraldine Jewsbury. She is wearing a dark, hooded cloak, with a light lace collar and a rose-shaped fastener. Her dark wavy hair is pulled back. Her full signature is reproduced underneath: "Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury".

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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 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 Features Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
The story revolves around a villainous husband, Mr Ponsonby Ferrars, dubbed by reviewer Geraldine Jewsburya social ogre of the present day, with an unfortunate lawful wife whom he once married in a moment of...
Textual Features Matilda Hays
Gender roles are explored in a range of ways throughout Adrienne Hope. Lord Charles's sophisticated sister has spent considerable time with men: her experience makes her wary of protestations of love. The woman writer...
Textual Features Maria Jane Jewsbury
Monica Correa Fryckstedt suggests that MJJ 's interest in religious doubt may have influenced her sister 's later novels, as well as those by Mary Augusta Ward .
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
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, No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73.
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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...
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...
Textual Features Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
Since its action begins some years before the Slavery Abolition Act or Emancipation Bill (which received royal assent on 28 August 1833 and came into effect on 1 August 1834), slavery is one of this...
Textual Features Julia Kavanagh
Mabel or Queen Mab, the novel's heroine, is a young orphan, alone on the street with a large sum of money in her pocket, when she is taken in by John Ford, a man...
Residence Maria Jane Jewsbury
After their wedding MJJ and her husband moved to London, where they stayed at 18 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, until it was time to leave for India. They stayed at the house of Miss Darby
Reception Charlotte Riddell
The Athenæum review, by Geraldine Jewsbury , saw CR 's release of her actual name as a major literary event. But she thought the novel itself not up to CR's best standard. She found in...
Reception Charlotte Riddell
The Athenæum reviewer for this novel—again Geraldine Jewsbury —thought that CR was back on form in this better-structured, more clearly narrated novel. She admired the way that Heather's character is seen in action, and complained...
Reception Matilda Hays
Jewsbury found inartistic the innovative construction of the narrative, which opens with Lord Charles's second marriage, and then flashes back to introduce Adrienne Hope eight years earlier, so that the story of his wooing of...
Reception Maria Jane Jewsbury
Geraldine Jewsbury made an attempt to compile her sister 's works into a memorial volume. Ultimately, she could not complete the project because the writings were in the hands of MJJ 's husband , who...
Reception Julia Kavanagh
Geraldine Jewsbury defended her: The Hobbies is, on the whole, the most foolish novel we have ever read: its publication is an insult to the public; and that Miss Kavanagh should have strictly refused to...

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