JEWSBURY: The Collected Writings of Geraldine Jewsbury (1812-1880)
This project makes possible the critical re-assessment of Geraldine Jewsbury by making available the complete original texts of all 6 novels and both children's stories written by her and published during her lifetime. These are:
- Zoe: the history of two lives (1845) - one of the earliest Victorian novels to explore religious scepticism;
- The half-sisters (1848), arguably her finest work, exploring existential questions and contrasting the focussed and fulfilled life of an actress with the hum-drum existence of a manufacturer's wife;
- Marian Withers (1851) - which explores themes of entrepreneurship and industrialism;
- Constance Herbert (1855);
- The sorrows of gentility (1856);
- Right or Wrong (1859);
- The history of an adopted child (1853) and Angelo: or the pine forest in the alps (1861);
- We also include A selection from the letters of Geraldine Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle (1892).
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