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Geraldine Jewsbury

English · Hardback

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This innovative new work presents a critical, aesthetic and historical approach to the significant novelist and critic Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1812-1880). / Jewsbury was a truly accomplished Victorian woman of letters. She wrote six novels, two novels for children, articles and short stories as well as innumerable book reviews and influential reports for publishers. Her work is being newly recovered by a new generation. / Her first two novels, Zoe: A History of Two Lives (1845) and The Half Sisters (1848), were best sellers, and considered scandalous when published. They, like all of her novels, concern the difficulties of women in traditional roles - the problems of careers for women, the deficiencies of education for women, women's unrealistic expectations of marriage, and their lack of satisfaction with their lives. / Contents: Ch. 1: Introduction: Rediscovering Geraldine Jewsbury; Ch. 2: Early Influences: Becoming Geraldine Jewsbury; Ch.3: The Carlyles and Zoe: Discovering the World; Ch.4: Jewsbury's Career in Fiction: Educating Readers; Ch.5: Jane Carlyle, Walter Mantell, and Other Friendships: Developing Intimacies; Ch. 6: Jewsbury as a Reviewer and Editor: Forwarding the Cause of Women; Ch.7: Jewsbury as a Publisher's Reader: Reading for Women; Ch. 8: Jewsbury's Legacy: Jewsbury Today.

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Abigail Burnham Bloom has written several books and many articles on Victorian writers, including the Carlyles and the Brontes. She lives in Southampton, New York.

Product details

Authors Abigail Burnham Bloom
Publisher Edward Everett Root
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.03.2020
 
EAN 9781912224883
ISBN 978-1-912224-88-3
No. of pages 204
Dimensions 145 mm x 222 mm x 15 mm
Weight 394 g
Series Key Popular Women Writers
Key Popular Women Writers
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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