Charles Bray

Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) began working as an assistant on the Coventry Herald, owned by her friend Charles Bray ; her duties included reviewing and writing articles on a wide range of subjects.

While appearing on stage MEB must have found it a challenge to protect herself from unwanted sexual attentions. She attracted the attention, apparently without meeting disapproval from her mother, of newspaper proprietor Charles Bray (who...

CN was a friend of the two poets who shared the name Michael Field (who also came from Birmingham) and of the medical doctor Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (who presumably did not hold against her the...

She later suppressed and then downplayed the extent of her acting experience, but she retained some friendships from this era, including actress Florence Haydon and managers William Creswick and Henry Nye Chart (to whom she...

Her interest in social reform brought her into friendship with Charles Bray of Coventry, and her involvement with the feminist movement led to personal friendships with many of its leaders. She became, for instance, one...

Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) established formative friendships with Cara Bray , her husband Charles , and her sister, Sara Hennell .

In her youth she had been part of a circle that included Charles Bray and George Eliot . Though she never met the latter, she credited Eliot (along with Mary Wollstonecraft and Harriet Martineau

Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) sided with Robert Owen , John Bright , and their mutual friend Charles Bray , chairman of the local Anti-Corn Law League , in opposing the Corn Laws.

Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) published a number of anonymous articles in the Coventry Herald, at this time owned by her friend Charles Bray .

She spent almost her whole life in Edinburgh, though she apparently lived for some time in the West Midlands near Coventry, where she moved in the circle of Charles Bray (social reformer and...

The philanthropic aristocrat Charles Raymond in this story is based on MEB 's friend Charles Bray .Wolff sees Isabel (who during her youth lives as did MEB in Camberwell) as a kind...

As she began to form intellectual friendships, her letters became a record of her critical and literary mind. Biographer Rosemary Ashton traces her fictional side to a letter she addressed to Charles Bray in October...