JEWSBURY

Geraldine Endsor (dau. of Thomas Jewsbury of Manchester, merchant, d. 1840). b. Measham, Derby shire 1812; her parents removed to Manchester 1818; great friend of Thomas Carlyle and his wife from 1841, many of Mrs. Carlyle’s letters are addre ed to her, as are also Lady Theodore Martin’s Letters on Shakspere’s Female characters; lived in Chelsea 1854–66, at Seven oaks, Kent 1866–80; granted civil list pension of £40, 19 June 1874; author of Zoe, the history of two lives 3 vols. 1845; The half-sisters 2 vols. 1848, three editions; Marian Withers 3 vols. 1851; The history of an adopted child 1853; Con stance Herbert 3 vols. 1855; The sorrows of gentility 2 vols. 1856; Angelo or the pine forest 1856; Right or Wrong 2 vols. 1859. d. in a private hospital at Burwood place, Edgware road, London 23 Sep. 1880. bur. in Lady Morgan’s vault, Brompton cemet. J. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1850) 140–4.