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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. 3: 10 |
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 | 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 | Eliza Lynn Linton | Walter Savage Landor
admired this novel. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
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... |
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 An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends.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. 113 |
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, p. 1: ix - lxxvii. xiv |
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 |
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 | 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. 186 |
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. 218-19 |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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