Zoe

Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (22 August 1812 - 23 September 1880) was an English novelist book reviewer and literary figure in London best known for popular novels such as Zoe: the History of Two Lives and reviews for the literary periodical the Athenaeum. Jewsbury never married but enjoyed intimate friendships notably with Jane Carlyle wife of the essayist Thomas Carlyle. Jewsbury's romantic feelings for her and the complexity of their relations appear in Jewsbury's writings. She also encouraged other people such as Walter Mantell to try new things. Jewsbury was primarily a novelist of ideas and moral dilemmas who sharply questioned the standard idealised roles of wife and mother and promoted the spiritual value of work in a woman's life.