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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Florence Marryat | Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing this novel for the Athenæum, made no attempt to hide her irritation with it. She observed that the ideas of women on points of morals and ethics seem in a... |
| Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Athenæum review of Charlotte's Inheritance, written by Geraldine Jewsbury
, expressed revulsion at the coarse reality Athenæum. J. Lection. 2108 (1868): 418 |
| Literary responses | Georgiana Chatterton | Country Coteries was reviewed for the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury
. 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 | Matilda Hays | Geraldine Jewsbury
simultaneously praised and criticised MH
, claiming that the novel contained graceful thoughts and good sentiments scattered through this story, making us feel that the author is wiser than her book. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1992 (1865): 920 |
| Literary responses | Amelia B. Edwards | Again the Athenæum reviewer was Geraldine Jewsbury
. She liked the novel, but her description gives an impression of mediocrity. It was, she said, slight, but very readable and interesting . . . . good... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Anna Eliza Bray | The Good St. Louis and His Times was recommended to readers by the Athenæum. Although reviewer Geraldine Jewsbury
lamented the book's scarcity of dates, Athenæum. J. Lection. 2205 (1870): 158 |
| Literary responses | Georgiana Chatterton | This work too was reviewed for the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury
. |
| Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | This fourth novel was also poorly received. The Athenæum reviewer, Geraldine Jewsbury
, found in it a monotonous unreality which fatigues the reader to no purpose. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1429 (1855): 313 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 | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Applauding JFLW
's skills as a translator did not stop Athenæum reviewer Geraldine Jewsbury
from calling the novel a fatal concatenation of madness, badness, and general inconvenience. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1860 (1863): 810 |
| Literary responses | Emma Robinson | Geraldine Jewsbury
reviewed it for the Athenæum. |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Lewes
, who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press, 1954–1978, 9 vols. 3: 10 |
| Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | This work's simplicity appealed to Geraldine Jewsbury
, the reviewer for the Athenæum. She noted that it was a charming and touching story, wrought from the humblest and simplest of materials; but the interest... |
| Literary responses | Rhoda Broughton | For Geraldine Jewsbury
(who had originally read the manuscript of Not Wisely, but Too Well for Bentley's
), the anonymous author's gender was supposedly self-evident: That the author is not a young woman, but a... |
| Literary responses | Emma Robinson | Its fascination with poisoning, topical criminality, and female villainy within the domestic sphere places this story squarely in the midst of the sensation novel phenomenon. The Athenæum review (this time written by Geraldine Jewsbury
... |
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