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".

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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 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...
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...
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 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 Sophie Veitch
Geraldine Jewsbury 's review in the Athenæum praised the novel, while it surprisingly downplayed its exciting aspects, arguing that it does not degenerate into anything morbid or sensational. She found it interesting and the subject...
Friends, Associates Sarah Tytler
ST 's career as a writer introduced her to many leading literary figures (especially those of Scots origin) whom she entertainingly describes in Three Generations.
Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray.
261-344
She became an especially good friend of Dinah Mulock Craik
Friends, Associates William Makepeace Thackeray
WMT was close to both of his surviving daughters, and was particularly proud when Anne 's first publication, the article Little Scholars, which appeared anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine. He was a sociable...
Literary responses Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
The only extended notice of this very interesting work was William Maginn 's hatchet job in Fraser's Magazine, which took Morgan's literary inadequacy for granted, and mercilessly ridiculed both her gender and her nationality...
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 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.
prelims
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

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.