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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Residence | Maria Jane Jewsbury | After their wedding MJJ
and her husband
moved to London, where they stayed at 18 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, until it was time to leave for India. They stayed at the house of Miss Darby |
Textual Features | Maria Jane Jewsbury | Monica Correa Fryckstedt
suggests that MJJ
's interest in religious doubt may have influenced her sister
's later novels, as well as those by Mary Augusta Ward
. Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol. 67 , No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73. 460-1 |
Textual Production | Maria Jane Jewsbury | She reviewed poetry, religious books, biography, and children's literature. Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol. 67 , No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73. 463, 470-3 |
Reception | Maria Jane Jewsbury | |
Literary responses | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Elizabeth Gaskell
later reported that reviews had been good. Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press. 527 Athenæum. J. Lection. 1593 (1858): 593 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. 654 (1840): 371-2 |
Textual Features | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Since its action begins some years before the Slavery Abolition Act or Emancipation Bill (which received royal assent on 28 August 1833 and came into effect on 1 August 1834), slavery is one of this... |
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. 527 |
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 | 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 | Catherine Hubback | Geraldine Jewsbury
's review praised the novel as among the best of a good crop that year, noting: The story is as quiet as one of Miss Austen
's, but the characters and incidents are... |
Literary responses | Catherine Hubback | In her review for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury
pronounced this a dreary tale. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Textual Production | Caroline Herschel | Selections from these and CH
's other life-writings were edited as her Memoir and Correspondence in 1876. The listed editor, Mary Cornwallis Herschel
(who had married into the family), presented CH
's Recollections first (with... |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
's literary correspondents and friends included Grace Aguilar
, Joanna Baillie
(whose Beacon she recalled reading when very young), and Mary Howitt
. Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn. 238 Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley. I: 145 |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Hays | By her twenties, MH
was well-acquainted with several prominent figures in England's social, political, and literary scene. Her circle included Mary Howitt
, Eliza Meteyard
, William Charles Macready
, Samuel Laurence
, Geraldine Jewsbury |
Textual Features | Matilda Hays | Gender roles are explored in a range of ways throughout Adrienne Hope. Lord Charles's sophisticated sister has spent considerable time with men: her experience makes her wary of protestations of love. The woman writer... |
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