Geraldine Jewsbury

22 August 1812 - 23 September 1880

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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Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
Friends, Associates	Camilla Crosland	CC 's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting...
Literary responses	Camilla Crosland	Geraldine Jewsbury gave Mrs. Blake a positive review in the Athenæum. She suggested that Mrs. Crosland's mind seems to have matured within the last year or two, and there is a repose and simplicity...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Camilla Crosland	Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar , Lady Blessington
Textual Production	Charles Dickens	Other contributions were appeared from Mrs Alexander , Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Caroline Chisholm (later parodied by CD ), Wilkie Collins , Dinah Mulock and Georgiana Craik , Amelia B. Edwards ,...
Literary responses	Amelia B. Edwards	Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this novel for the Athenæum, welcomed a new writer onto the literary scene and expressed the hope of seeing more of her. Her short notice praised Edwards for writing of...
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...
Publishing	George Eliot	The first number of the Westminster Review to appear under her anonymous (and unpaid) editorship was that of January 1852, which was also the first under John Chapman 's ownership. One of her own contributions...
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 was vindicated when printing after printing was called for (15,000 copies...
Literary responses	Sarah Stickney Ellis	It was reviewed for the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury , who considered the topic unsuited to elevated treatment: The existence of this class is a deep and difficult problem, to be treated in sad and...
Literary responses	Georgiana Fullerton	Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this novel for the Athenæum, commented that GFalways writes with grace and tenderness, but she is afraid to trust herself to her own gifts. She seems to have a...
Family and Intimate relationships	Constance Garnett	Before her marriage, CG 's mother, Clara (Patten) Black , daughter of the successful portrait-painter George Patten , moved in artistic and intellectual circles and was a friend of Jane Welsh Carlyle and Geraldine Jewsbury
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Gaskell	EG was glad to escape the storm of controversy that her novel had raised in Manchester, and to be feted in London. She already knew Mary Howitt and Geraldine Jewsbury (who lived in Manchester). Although...
Wealth and Poverty	Elizabeth Gaskell	This was near Greenheys Fields, where the opening of Mary Barton is set, and it was also close to the house of Geraldine Jewsbury . The rent was expensive for the Gaskells, at £150...
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	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...

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