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She was the daughter of Thomas Jewsbury, a Manchester merchant, was born on August 22, 1812 at Measham, England.
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This is the first novel by Geraldine Jewsbury, one of mid-Victorian Britains most admired and popular writers. It deals powerfully with the theme of religious scepticism, through the challenging story of a young married woman, who embarks on an extra-marital affair with a Catholic priest.
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She was the daughter of Thomas Jewsbury, a Manchester merchant, was born on August 22, 1812 at Measham, England.
Her first novel, Zoe: the History of Two Lives, was published in 1845, and was followed by The Half Sisters (1848), Marian Withers (1851), Constance Herbert (1855), The Sorrows of Gentility (1856), Right or Wrong (1859).
In 1850 she was invited by Charles Dickens to write for Household Words; for many years she was a frequent contributor to the Athenaeum and other journals and magazines.
Carlyle described her, after their first meeting in 1841, as "one of the most interesting young women I have seen for years; clear delicate sense and courage looking out of her small sylph-like figure. "
From this time till Mrs Carlyle's death in 1866, Geraldine Jewsbury was the most intimate of her friends.
The selections from Geraldine Jewsbury's letters to Jane Welsh Carlyle (1892, ed.
Mrs Alexander Ireland) prove how confidential were the relationsbetween the two women for a quarter of a century.
In 1854 Miss Jewsbury removed from Manchester to London to be near her friend.
Carlyle's comment was that "few or none of these narratives are correct in details, but there is a certain mythical truth in all or most of them; " and he added, "the Geraldine accounts of her (Mrs Carlyle's) childhood are substantially correct. "
He accepted them as the groundwork for his own essay on "Jane Welsh Carlyle, " with which they were therefore incorporated by Froude when editing Carlyle's Reminiscences.
Miss Jewsbury was consulted by Froude when he was preparing Carlyle's biography, and her recollection of her friend's confidences confirmed the suspicion that Carlyle had on one occasion used physical violence towards his wife. Miss Jewsbury further informed Froude that the secret of the domestic troubles of the Carlyles lay in the fact that Carlyle had been " one of those persons who ought never to have married, " and that Mrs Carlyle had at one time contemplated having her marriage legally annulled.
The endeavour has been made to discredit Miss Jewsbury in relation to this matter, but there seems to be no sufficient ground for doubting that she accurately repeated what she had learnt from Mrs Carlyle's own lips.
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Jewsbury never married.
