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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 | 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
... |
| Literary responses | Caroline Clive | This novel seems to have divided the critics. Geraldine Jewsbury
's Athenæum review declared that it had no story to tell, and none is told, and wondered why the book should have been sent out... |
| 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 | 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 | Julia Kavanagh | Writing again for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury
continued to be pleased with JK
's work. She particularly praised the character development here, and claimed that the workmanship is good throughout, and the interest kindled... |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | Dramatic Studies as a whole was acclaimed by reviewers. A reviewer in the Westminster Review of October 1866 wrote that Mrs. Webster shows not only originality, but what is nearly as rare, trained intellect and... |
| Literary responses | Emma Robinson | Geraldine Jewsbury
, again reviewing ER
for the Athenæum, this time made no reference of any kind to her gender. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1947 (1865): 233 |
| Literary responses | Catherine Hubback | In her review for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury
pronounced this a dreary tale. qtd. in Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Sophie Veitch | Geraldine Jewsbury
's review in the Athenæum praised the novel, while it surprisingly downplayed its exciting aspects, arguing that it does not degenerate into anything morbid or sensational. She found it interesting and the subject... |
| Literary responses | Frances Browne | Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum called Browne's stories extremely graceful and predicted that they would rejoice the hearts of little folks who are not too proud to read about fairies. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1519 (1856): 1497 |
| Literary responses | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum saw considerable promise in the book, but blamed it for verging on a treatment of incest which ought to be . . . inadmissable for a novel. qtd. in Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages. 67 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. |
| Publishing | Ouida | The success of Ouida's Strathmore had led publisher RichardBentley
to consider luring her from Chapman and Hall
; while Under Two Flags was still in manuscript, he commissioned a reader's report from Geraldine Jewsbury |
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