Geraldine Jewsbury

Geraldine Jewsbury

Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (22 August 1812 – 23 September 1880) was an English literary critic and author.

Early life

She was born in Measham, Leicestershire.

Career

In 1845, Jewsbury had her first of five novels published. In addition, she wrote two stories for children, "The History of an Adopted Child" (1852) and "Angelo, or the Pine Forest in the Alps" (1855). From 1848 to 1871, she contributed more than 1700 reviews to the "Athenæum", " a London periodical published weekly. She reviewed novels as well as works of non-fiction, children's books, and poetry.

Author, Charles Dickens was a great fan of Jewsbury's writing and in 1850 sent her a letter inviting her to contribute to his new weekly literary journal, "Household Words".

Jewsbury, who never married, is also noted for a collection of 126 letters she wrote to Jane Welsh Carlyle, the wife of historian Thomas Carlyle, during their more than fifty year friendship.

Later life

Geraldine Jewsbury died in London and was interred there in the Brompton Cemetery.

Novels:

*"Zoe, A History of Two Lives" (1845)
*"The Half Sisters" (1848)
*"Marian Withers" (1851)
*"Constance Herbert" (1855)
*"The Sorrows of Gentility" (1856)
*"Right or Wrong" (1859)

External links

* [http://athenaeum.soi.city.ac.uk/aboutath.html Geraldine Jewsbury's review of ] George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, ("Athenæum", April 7, 1860).
*NRA|P15559


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