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
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 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
The Examiner wrote,...
Literary responses Annie Keary
Reviewing for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury evinced some impatience with the plot. She doubted that women in real life could be so exaggeratedly self-sacrificing, and flatly denied that a man in real life could...
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
(Geraldine Jewsbury reviewed it for the Athenæum.) Betty Gilderdale nevertheless finds the stories well constructed...
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 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
though the Feminist Companion considered it rather silly.
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.
198
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...

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