George Henry Lewes

18 April 1817 - 30 November 1878

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 .

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Leisure and Society	Elizabeth Gaskell	G. H. Lewes found more favour when she heard him speak on speculative philosophy at the same place in February 1849—even though EG later grew to detest him personally. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 218-19
Literary responses	Charlotte Brontë	The reviewers proclaimed that the novel's descriptions of women's thoughts and emotions proved that the author was a woman. CB took particular exception to a notice by her correspondent George Henry Lewes in the Edinburgh...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Aurora Leigh was, according to Barry Cornwall (father of Adelaide Procter ), the book of the season. Procter, Bryan Waller. An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. Editor Patmore, Coventry, Roberts Brothers, 1877. 113 John Ruskin wrote shortly after its appearance, I think Aurora Leigh the greatest poem in the English...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	In its review of Last Poems, the Spectator considered EBBby far the greatest, if not the only, Englishwoman whose name deserves to be ranked among our genuine poets. The Spectator. F. C. Westley. (6 July 1861): 725 George Henry Lewes
Literary responses	George Eliot	Cross , concerned to protect and dignify her, chose the more sententious passages and excluded the spontaneous, trivial, and humorous remarks Eliot, George. “Preface”. The George Eliot Letters, edited by Gordon S. Haight, Yale University Press, 1954, p. 1: ix - lxxvii. xiv from her personal writings, and presented an icon of Victorian moral earnestness; many...
Literary responses	Charlotte Yonge	The Daisy Chain's popularity was long-lasting, though not so intense as that of The Heir of Redclyffe. Jane Austen 's nephew James Austen-Leigh compared it to the work of Austen and Scott ...
Literary responses	Maria Jane Jewsbury	The warmest appreciation of MJJ 's Austen criticism came from George Henry Lewes in July 1859. He also, however, attributed the piece to Whately when he quoted extensively from it in an essay on Austen
Literary responses	Marghanita Laski	The Times Literary Supplement printed a less positive review of the George Eliot biography, finding it too heavily reliant on a totally unreliable witness, Eliza Lynn Linton , whose envious and insensitive pronouncements on George...
Literary responses	George Eliot	Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming (Westminster ReviewOctober 1855), an examination of just the kind of narrow and rigidly Calvinistic religious thinking to which GE herself had once subscribed, convinced Lewes of her genius as a writer. Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968. 186
Literary responses	Elizabeth Gaskell	Some reviews applauded the courage of Ruth and its author; others decried the subject-matter and language. Henry Fothergill Chorley 's Athenæum review was mixed: he admired some scenes for their honesty and naturalness, but was...
Literary responses	Eliza Lynn Linton	Walter Savage Landor admired this novel. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 George Henry Lewes reviewed it at considerable length for the Athenæum. He considered writing convincing fiction about the Greeks an impossible task, because their ethos was so...
Literary responses	Eliza Lynn Linton	Athenæum reviewer H. F. Chorley felt that the author was now raving like a pagan Pythoness—the female oracle whose pronouncements were not expected to be comprehensible: There is a positive untruth to the very...
Literary responses	Florence Dixie	Holyoake , the dedicatee, in his prefatory piece (like W. Stewart Ross commenting on The Story of Ijain) defends FD 's work not only by assertion (it is a a marvel of thought...
Literary responses	George Sand	Charlotte Brontë , signing as C. Bell, expressed to G. H. Lewes both praise and criticism for GS : It is poetry, as I comprehend the word, which elevates that masculine George Sand, and...
Literary responses	George Eliot	Lewes , who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press, 1954–1978, 9 vols. 3: 10 was vindicated when printing after printing was called for (15,000 copies...

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