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 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...
Friends, Associates Jane Welsh Carlyle
Geraldine Jewsbury 's stay with the Carlyles at their home in Chelsea marked the beginning of her lifelong friendship with JWC .
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Jane Welsh Carlyle: A New Selection of Her Letters. Editor Bliss, Trudy, Victor Gollancz, 1950.
114-15
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 Margaret Gatty
Geraldine Jewsbury reviewed this book for the Athenæum on 11 October 1862. Juliana Ewing wrote that like many sequels it was not equal to the first work, and bears traces of the fact that Mrs...
Literary responses Matilda Betham-Edwards
Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this book for the Athenæum early the next year, was not exactly encouraging. She guessed the author's gender correctly, and judged the novel a pale imitation of Charlotte Brontë 's Jane...
Literary responses Julia Stretton
Again Geraldine Jewsbury provided for the Athenæum a staggeringly unfavourable review, opening with a fantastical picture of the kinds of narrow-minded, culturally impoverished people who might possibly enjoy the book. She defines the two morals...
Literary responses Jane Welsh Carlyle
Virginia Woolf declared in Geraldine and Jane (in The Second Common Reader) that JWC 's letters owe their incomparable brilliancy to the hawk-like swoop and descent of her mind upon facts.
Woolf, Virginia, and Virginia Woolf. “Geraldine and Jane”. The Second Common Reader, Hogarth Press, 1932, pp. 186-01.
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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.
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 Matilda Betham-Edwards
The Athenæum, which in later years was often a less than generous commentator on MBE 's work, gave Now or Never the first of its truly crushing responses. Geraldine Jewsbury , writing anonymously, began,...
Literary responses Hesba Stretton
The notoriously critical Geraldine Jewsbury condescendingly summarized the plot in her Athenæum review: everybody seems on the road whose end is destruction; the property is lost by speculations, and ruin is imminent, when difficulties are...
Literary responses Georgiana Craik
Geraldine Jewsbury 's review of My First Journal was damning. This, she stated, was by no means a book for the young, such as we should wish any young people of our own to take...
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...
Literary responses Caroline Leakey
Geraldine Jewsbury 's review in the Athenæum was extremely positive. She praised the book as written with great force and earnestness, saying that even the hardened novel readers and stony-hearted critics at the Athenæumhave...

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