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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Closest to her in her last years were her niece Sydney (now widowed) and also Geraldine Jewsbury , who became her amanuensis and helper in the task of sorting through the letters and papers of...
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was a friend of Emily Faithfull , Geraldine Jewsbury , and Rosa Bonheur , and she knew Josephine Butler , Augusta Webster , Lady Battersea , Emily Pfeiffer , Anne Thackeray Ritchie , Helen Taylor
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Ann Kelty
MAK quotes Geraldine Jewsbury and Maria Edgeworth , and remarks that although unmarried herself she has observed what goes wrong in marriage: she traces difficulties between couples to the demand for too much feeling. The...
Intertextuality and Influence Rhoda Broughton
RB 's satire here embraces the publishing industry and its pandering to readers' tastes. Emma's cousin Lesbia is apparently representative of a particular type of circulating-library reader; much to Emma's mortification, she likes Miching Mallecho...
Literary responses Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
Elizabeth Gaskell later reported that reviews had been good.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press, 1967.
527
The Athenæum notice, by Geraldine Jewsbury , was moderately favourable, but by calling it the work of a beginner,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1593 (1858): 593
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654 (1840): 371-2
Literary responses Julia Kavanagh
The collection was highly praised by Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing for the Athenæum.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1683 (1860): 133
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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...
Literary responses Frances Browne
Geraldine Jewsbury , writing for the Athenæum, presumed the author of The Hidden Sin to be male, and congratulated him on an ingenuity of invention which distinguishes it from the ordinary run of sensation...
Literary responses Charlotte Riddell
Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing The Moors and the Fens for the Athenæum in the year after publication, judged that although it had some interest, it had nothing of nature: The whole story resembles a child's...
Literary responses Isabella Banks
Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing for the Athenæum, called this novel intrepid. But, she wrote, [s]ensational beyond the usual high-water mark, it overflows all the banks and bounds of probability.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2098 (1868): 54
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Literary responses Charlotte Riddell
Geraldine Jewsbury reviewed this novel too for the Athenæum the year after publication, and she found it excellent . . . powerfully and carefully written, far superior to CR 's work heretofore.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1947 (1865): 233
Literary responses Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
Agostino Ruffini was said to think very highly of this novel before its publication.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press, 1967.
527
Again Geraldine Jewsbury wrote the Athenæum review, and this time her praise was warm. She felt that the climactic scene...
Literary responses Mary Anne Barker
Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this book for the Athenæum, expressed her delight and hoped for the future appearance of analogous books for Easter, or a birthday, or any day and every day all the...
Literary responses Julia Stretton
This novel attracted a chorus of praise. Geraldine Jewsbury in the Athenæum recommended it very strongly. She found it fresh and original, in the main unpreachy, and wrote that if Margaret was a little too...
Literary responses Josephine Butler
In her review of the collection for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury called Butler's introduction a charming composition . . . marked by a pathetic dignity; eloquent, earnest and strong, and wrote that it successfully...

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