George Henry Lewes

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Standard Name: Lewes, George Henry
Used Form: G. H. Lewes
At GHL 's death in 1878, Anthony Trollope praised him as journalist, editor, critic, philosophical populariser, biographer, and scientific writer.
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press, 1991.
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One of the leading Victorian men of letters, he is nevertheless remembered chiefly as the partner of George Eliot .
George Henry Lewes, head and shoulders, drawn for Popular Science Monthly, 1876, from a photograph of 1858. He is in half-profile looking to the right, with moustache, side-burns, and jaw-line beard.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Geraldine Jewsbury
She and her brother entertained such visitors as George Henry Lewes , dramatist Westland Marston , Italian exile and journalist Antonio Gallenga , manufacturer William Edward Forster , mechanical engineer Joseph Whitworth , poet and...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Gaskell
She meanwhile sustained her usual energetic and gossipy flow of correspondence with a wide range of literary and personal connections. She got caught up in the speculation surrounding the split between Effie and John Ruskin
Friends, Associates Eliza Lynn Linton
People she met at the Laurences' house included Thornton Leigh Hunt (who, with his wife, lived at the Laurences'); Smith Williams , reader for Smith and Elder ; Robert Owen , socialist; Frank Stone ...
Friends, Associates Anthony Trollope
Trollope was a friend of William Thackeray , G. H. Lewes , Richard Monckton Milnes , George Eliot , William Russell , and John Everett Millais .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Of Eliot he wrote: this gifted woman was...
Friends, Associates Matilda Betham-Edwards
MBE set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with...
Friends, Associates Katharine S. Macquoid
KSM was a close friend of fellow-writer Annie Keary . She also knew John Morley , George Henry Lewes and George Eliot .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman, 1988.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Friends, Associates Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Their friendship proved to be life-long. BLSB —though she said she could offer no advice while Eliot was making the contentious decision to live with George Henry Lewes —promised to stand by her friend no...
Health Jessie White Mario
By 1877 JWM 's health must have begun to fail: George Henry Lewes was sufficiently concerned to consult a London doctor on her behalf. The physician prescribed rest (physical and mental) for a nervous ailment.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
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Intertextuality and Influence George Eliot
The idea for the title had come to her while she lazed in bed one morning while on holiday at Tenby, at a time when Lewes was encouraging her to try her hand at...
Intertextuality and Influence Matilda Hays
MH and Ashurst began their undertaking with encouragement from George Henry Lewes and William Macready , both of whom were acquainted with Sand. Lewes strongly advised that in her translations MH should make the works...
Intertextuality and Influence George Eliot
As she moved on intellectually from her religious youth, she became steeped in the Higher Criticism of the Bible, and increasingly interested in alternative explanatory systems, particularly those of social science—including Herbert Spencer ...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
The book arose from FPC 's belief that We want a System of Morals which shall not entangle itself with sectarian creeds, nor imperil its authority with that of tottering Churches; but which shall be...
Intertextuality and Influence Edna Lyall
Quotations about sympathy on the title-page come from George Henry Lewes (in his life of Goethe) and from Arnold Toynbee . EL 's earliest heroine, then Espérance de Mabillon, makes a cameo appearance with her...
Intertextuality and Influence George Eliot
On 6 December 1857, by the time she had two short fictions (soon published as part of Scenes of Clerical Life) in print, GE confided in her diary that she had once before embarked...
Intertextuality and Influence Katharine S. Macquoid
KSM was said to have sought advice at the outset of her career from G. H. Lewes , who advised her to put her knowledge of France to use.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman, 1988.
She dedicated this first book to...

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