Charlotte Montefiore

[1] According to her obituary in the Jewish Chronicle she read widely, "embracing every species of literature and especially moral and ethical philosophy.

[4] In the same year appeared (anonymously) her satirical novel Caleb Asher which attacked evangelical conversion movements directed at the Jewish community.

This set out the duty of British Jewry to improve "the rough and uncultivated nature" of the Jewish working class in England "for, if it is left to its own untutored guidance, it may stray into a wrong channel."

In the opinion of Richa Dwor "Although the "Cheap Jewish Library" lost money, it fulfilled Montefiore's charitable aims [...] to address religious reform and conversion.

It also provided a context in which female authors corresponded and encouraged one another in publication, and thus may be viewed as contributing to the beginnings of a Jewish women's movement in England."