Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor

Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor jo͞ozˈbərē [key], 1812–80, English novelist. She is remembered as much for her friendship with the Carlyles and other literary people as for her novels, which include Zoe (1845) and The Sorrows of Gentility (1856).

See biography by S. Howe (1935).

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