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
.
ES
's latest novel, Cleve Hall, which she published as the author of Amy Herbert, was reviewed in the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury
, who knew the identity of the author.
Virtually all...
Literary responses
Emily Shirreff
The reviewer for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury
, declared that this was an excellent book, not only for its wise counsel on the education of women, but for the element of genial good sense...
Literary responses
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
Literary responses
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...
Literary responses
Julia Stretton
This novel attracted a chorus of praise. Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum recommended it very strongly. She found it fresh and original, in the main unpreachy, and wrote that if Margaret was a little too...
Literary responses
Julia Stretton
Geraldine Jewsbury
was far less respectful in reviewing The Valley of a Hundred Fires for the Athenæum. She allowed that the spirit of the book was refined and good
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1724 (1860): 629
and some...
Literary responses
Julia Stretton
Again Geraldine Jewsbury
provided for the Athenæum a staggeringly unfavourable review, opening with a fantastical picture of the kinds of narrow-minded, culturally impoverished people who might possibly enjoy the book. She defines the two morals...
Literary responses
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...
Textual Production
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan
published Passages from My Autobiography, edited by Geraldine Jewsbury
from her diaries and letters.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
239
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
.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
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
Friends, Associates
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Closest to her in her last years were her niece Sydney
(now widowed) and also Geraldine Jewsbury
, who became her amanuensis and helper in the task of sorting through the letters and papers of...
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...
Friends, Associates
William Makepeace Thackeray
WMT
was close to both of his surviving daughters, and was particularly proud when Anne
's first publication, the article Little Scholars, which appeared anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine. He was a sociable...
Friends, Associates
Sarah Tytler
ST
's career as a writer introduced her to many leading literary figures (especially those of Scots origin) whom she entertainingly describes in Three Generations.
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...
