Zoe by Geraldine Jewsbury

Zoe by Geraldine Jewsbury. 1989 Virago Modern Classics edition (c/r1845), 431 pages. Jewsbury was a popular English novelist and critic, who had a passionate relationship with essayist Thomas Carlyle's wife Jane Carlyle, a relationship Virginia Woolf wrote about in an article of her letters. Zoe was her first novel and was compared to George Sand's work, an idol of Jewsbury. Condition: Good used copy. "There is something ghostlike in the appearance of a garden in decay, one feels to sympathize with it under its weight of desolation, as if it we a living thing,"