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Geraldine Jewsbury
Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury, born August 22, 1812 died September 23, 1880, was an English literary critic and authoress.
Born in Measham, Derbyshire, 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 1848-1871, she contributed more than 1700 reviews to the "Athenĉum, " 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.
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)
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