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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
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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, 1911. 261-344 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Mary Anne Barker | This was the only book by MAB
to have bad reviews, including one in the Times. Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009. 169-70 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | In the AthenæumGeraldine Jewsbury
called the story of this book very charming and touching, Athenæum. J. Lection. 1756 (1861): 828 |
| 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. qtd. in Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge, 1991. 432 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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