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 .
Head-and-shoulders photograph of Geraldine Jewsbury. She is wearing a dark, hooded cloak, with a light lace collar and a rose-shaped fastener. Her dark wavy hair is pulled back. Her full signature is reproduced underneath: "Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury".

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Literary responses Fanny Aikin Kortright
Geraldine Jewsbury 's review in the Athenæum was merciless (although she guessed the gender of the author). She called the novel an eminently vulgar book, written apparently with great ease and satisfaction to herself.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1647 (1859): 675
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 Ouida
Editorial reader Geraldine Jewsbury , commissioned by RichardBentley to report on this novel at its manuscript stage, wrote scathingly (on 29 December 1865) that it was not a story that will do any man...
Literary responses Ellen Wood
In her review for the Athenæum, Geraldine Jewsbury found the novel interesting despite its didactic aim, and suggested that the authoress might write a very good novel if left to follow what whist-players call...
Literary responses Caroline Leakey
Geraldine Jewsbury 's review in the Athenæum was extremely positive. She praised the book as written with great force and earnestness, saying that even the hardened novel readers and stony-hearted critics at the Athenæumhave...
Literary responses Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Geraldine Jewsbury in the Athenæum found Eleanor's Victory inferior to Lady Audley's Secret or Aurora Floyd. She regretted that MEB had succumbed to the taste for excitement and novelty and thus bartered for the...
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 Ouida
The Athenæum's mixed review of the published novel is also attributed to Jewsbury . It ostensibly applauds the book's readability and pluck while implicitly criticizing its implausibility. The characters, for example, are described as...
Literary responses Camilla Crosland
Geraldine Jewsbury gave Mrs. Blake a positive review in the Athenæum. She suggested that Mrs. Crosland's mind seems to have matured within the last year or two, and there is a repose and simplicity...
Literary responses Eliza Lynn Linton
Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this novel for the Athenæum, was none too complimentary. She thought the author had offered an ineffective sermon on this excellent moral: clever, as anything she writes is likely to...
Literary responses Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Geraldine Jewsbury 's Athenæum review praised the author's dramatic abilities and her convincing dialogue.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1982 (1865): 537
Literary responses 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...
Literary responses Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
Jewsbury gave Behind the Scenes an unfavourable review in the Athenæum for alleged dullness, malignity, and vulgarity.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1381 (1854): 460
She claimed that its ingrained coarseness manifests itself from the beginning to the end
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1381 (1854): 460
Literary responses Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Geraldine Jewsbury in the Athenæum recognised a shift of generic gears in The Lady's Mile, away from the sensation novel towards the didactic novel of manners and morals. But she still considered this parable...
Literary responses Caroline Scott
A brief notice in the Athenæum by Geraldine Jewsbury was kinder: for those who like religious novels, [it] is one of the best of its class: for ourselves, we prefer it to any we have...

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