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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1984, pp. 450-73. 460-1 |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington
, doyenne of the albums... |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Julia Kavanagh | Mabel or Queen Mab, the novel's heroine, is a young orphan, alone on the street with a large sum of money in her pocket, when she is taken in by John Ford, a man... |
| Textual Features | Ellen Wood | This novel focuses on the Godolphin family, whose home, Ashlydyat, is located in Prior's Ash, on what was formerly Church land. The Shadow of the title refers to a local superstition that whenever misfortune... |
| Textual Features | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | The story revolves around a villainous husband, Mr Ponsonby Ferrars, dubbed by reviewer Geraldine Jewsburya social ogre of the present day, with an unfortunate lawful wife whom he once married in a moment of... |
| 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
,... |
| 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, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1984, pp. 450-73. 463, 470-3 |
| Textual Production | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Sydney Morgan
published Passages from My Autobiography, edited by Geraldine Jewsbury
from her diaries and letters. Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 239 |
| Textual Production | Georgiana Chatterton | Geraldine Jewsbury
provided comments and suggestions before the book was published. Sending the manuscript back on 9 February, she gave it as her view that it was worth publication. “The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Her name is given as Dewsbury... |
| Textual Production | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Lady Morgan's Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence was published in two volumes by W. H. Allen
, edited by W. Hepworth Dixon
and Geraldine Jewsbury
. Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols. prelims 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. 1832 (6 December 1862): 725-8 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | SOLM
was, throughout her career, torn between the feminine, impulsive, emotional aspect of herself and the learned, even pedantic aspect. She early confided in Alicia Lefanu
that the most powerful element in her complex, powerful... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Cook | This was priced at only a penny halfpenny, to attract popular readership. Gleadle, Kathryn. The Early Feminists. Macmillan, 1995. 91 |
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