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.
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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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Residence George Eliot
Marian Evans (later GE ) and George Henry Lewes returned from the Continent to England, where they soon settled at East Sheen, near Richmond and just outside London.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
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Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Reception George Eliot
Many friends of GE including Edith J. Simcox , plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight , believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes for his tireless protection of GE
Reception Geraldine Jewsbury
Many readers, including George Henry Lewes , were suspicious of this novel's sympathetic portrait of manufacturers, and speculated that Marian Withers was Jewsbury's response to Elizabeth Gaskell 's Mary Barton, which had presented factory...
Publishing George Eliot
George Henry Lewes persuaded Blackwood to undertake this unusual mode of publication, because Middlemarch was too long to fit the three-volume format which was by now the staple of the circulating library. They hoped to...
Publishing Katharine S. Macquoid
KSM switched publishers after this book. She asked the advice of Lewes , and he recommended her to Frederic Chapman of Chapman and Hall . But the next book she published, Elinor Dryden's Probation...
Publishing Caroline Clive
After she became established as a novelist, CC was approached by the editors of the new Once a Week in April 1859 with a request to write a serial for them: she was their first...
Publishing George Eliot
G. H. Lewes submitted it, as his own work, to publisher George Bohn , but their negotiations quickly collapsed with rancour on both sides. The work was not published until 1981.
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press.
154
Publishing George Eliot
At about the same time that GE took on the Westminster Review, she also began reviewing for The Leader, a weekly recently launched by Thornton Hunt and George Henry Lewes . Two uncomplimentary...
Publishing George Eliot
In submitting this anonymous manuscript to Blackwood , Lewes invoked the names of Oliver Goldsmith (author of The Vicar of Wakefield) and of Jane Austen . The firm of Blackwood turned out to be...
Publishing George Eliot
This departure from her usual publisher, Blackwood , was precipitated by a princely offer from George Smith of the Cornhill of £10,000 (the largest offer ever, although they eventually settled on £7,000 for copyright over...
politics Emily Davies
Under the direction of Charlotte Manning , five students began studying at the College at Benslow House, Hitchin, in October 1869.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable.
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Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon donated some sketches to decorate the walls...
Occupation Auguste Comte
AC 's work strongly influenced John Stuart Mill , George Henry Lewes , George Eliot , and especially Harriet Martineau , who produced an English translation and abridgement of the philosopher's work. AC was concerned...
Literary responses Eliza Lynn Linton
Walter Savage Landor admired this novel.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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 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...

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