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Jewsbury, Geraldine (Ensor)

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Jewsbury, Geraldine (Ensor) (1812-1880)

English novelist. Her first novel, Zoë (1845), was a sensation for its subject of a Catholic priest's love for a beautiful woman. Other novels with feminist themes include The Half Sisters (1848), and Marian Withers (1851), which has a regional setting. She was a reviewer for the Athenaeum from 1849-80.

She was born in Measham, Derbyshire. After her mother's death, she was brought up by her sister, novelist Maria Jewsbury (1800-33), on whose marriage she kept house for her father until his death in 1840, and then for her brother until his marriage in 1853. In 1841 she met Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, who greatly influenced her intellectual life.



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