Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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
.
According to Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum, the author loves to play with sharp tools, but the sword of Justice proves itself too heavy for her handling.
Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press.
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However, many disagreed; a reviewer for...
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
The only extended notice of this very interesting work was William Maginn
's hatchet job in Fraser's Magazine, which took Morgan's literary inadequacy for granted, and mercilessly ridiculed both her gender and her nationality...
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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...
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Ellen Wood
Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum considered The Shadow of Ashlydyatto be the best novel that Mrs. Wood has written.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1891 (1864): 119
An essay on the novel, published in The Argosy in 1895, after...
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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...
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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...
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Harriet Smythies
Geraldine Jewsbury
's review in the Athenæum claimed that she found the novel too bewildering . . . to follow.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2070 (1867): 851
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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.
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Again Geraldine Jewsbury
wrote the Athenæum review, and this time her praise was warm. She felt that the climactic scene...
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Ellen Wood
Geraldine Jewsbury
's Athenæum review (which began with an extended discussion of the origins of the St Martin's Eve festival) decried some of the more grotesque moments in the story, including its description of a...
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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
She also...
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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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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.
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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.
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Frances Browne
Geraldine Jewsbury
, writing for the Athenæum, presumed the author of The Hidden Sin to be male, and congratulated him on an ingenuity of invention which distinguishes it from the ordinary run of sensation...
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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...