Despite GJ's reputation among her contemporaries as a major influence on Victorian literature, her contributions as author and critic have faded into obscurity. Late in the period, Margaret Oliphant passed her over in The...
Reception
Geraldine Jewsbury
Biographer Susanne Howe criticizes editor Annie Elizabeth Ireland for her inclusion of intimate letters, considering them all too revealing for the casual twentieth century reader who is so ready with his Freudian vocabulary.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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Residence
Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ moved from Manchester to 3 Oakley Street, King's Road, Chelsea to be near her intimate friend Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Many sources give the date of her move to Chelsea as 1854, but biographer...
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
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Susanne Howe notes that it anticipates later novels by Mary Augusta Ward and J. A. Froude, which also deal with spiritual doubt.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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Textual Features
Geraldine Jewsbury
The novel's setting also allows GJ to express her opinions on industry and trade unions, staging conversations between mill owners on the education of workers and the household management of working-class women.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.