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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Travel | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
spent a week with George Eliot
, George Henry Lewes
, and Barbara Bodichon
at an old rectory at Swanmore in the Isle of Wight, which Bodichon had rented for a Christmas holiday. Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, p. vi, 354 pp. 250-1 |
Education | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Because of her mother's early death, MBE
, she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 124 |
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 | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | In July that year her friendship with George Eliot
had been cemented and her opinion of G. H. Lewes
radically improved by a seaside visit to this unconventional couple at Tenby in Wales. (By... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | In May 1869 George Eliot
recorded in her diary Bodichon's steady friendship at the time when G. H. Lewes
's son Thornie
was dying of tuberculosis of the spine. Bodichon visited twice a week and... |
Textual Production | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Matilda Betham-Edwards
mentions BLSB
's essay re-afforestation essay Australian Forests and Algerian deserts, which was shown to George Henry Lewes
one day in 1868 and printed in the Pall Mall Gazette the day after... |
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... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Brontë | CB
declined Thornton Hunt
's invitation to write for the Leader, which he was starting with George Henry Lewes
. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 633 |
Travel | Charlotte Brontë | CB
also had a confrontation with George Henry Lewes
. She attended the House of Commons
, the Chapel Royal
, where she saw her hero the Duke of Wellington
, and a meeting of... |
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 | 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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Hume Clapperton | JHC
also writes approvingly of free love, particularly George Eliot
's decision to join in domestic partnership with George Henry Lewes
. Eliot's decision, she says, was clearly motivated by Lewes's legal inability to obtain... |
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... |
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... |