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 .

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Friends, Associates John Ruskin
JR 's social and intellectual network was extensive: amongst his acquaintances were Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning , Elizabeth Gaskell , Violet Hunt , Jean Ingelow , Flora Shaw , Jane Welsh Carlyle and Thomas Carlyle
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
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 Ouida
The Athenæum's mixed review of the published novel is also attributed to Jewsbury . It ostensibly applauds the book's readability and pluck while implicitly criticizing its implausibility. The characters, for example, are described as...
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 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
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 Emily Shirreff
The reviewer for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury , declared that this was an excellent book, not only for its wise counsel on the education of women, but for the element of genial good sense...
Literary responses Julia Stretton
Geraldine Jewsbury was far less respectful in reviewing The Valley of a Hundred Fires for the Athenæum. She allowed that the spirit of the book was refined and good
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1724 (1860): 629
and some...
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 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...
Literary responses Fanny Aikin Kortright
Geraldine Jewsbury 's review in the Athenæum was merciless (although she guessed the gender of the author). She called the novel an eminently vulgar book, written apparently with great ease and satisfaction to herself.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1647 (1859): 675
Literary responses Georgiana Craik
Jewsbury found Hildred (whom she refers to as Hilda throughout her review) a well conceived character: The stately, accomplished, high-spirited, poor relative, with her Bohemian instincts and undisciplined character, her genius, waywardness, and wild, good...
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 Elizabeth Gaskell
Reviews were positive. Geraldine Jewsbury in the Athenæum said that for true artistic workmanship we think Sylvia's Lovers superior to any of Mrs Gaskell's former works.
Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge.
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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.
1844 (28 February 1863): 291
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