Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press.
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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Wealth and Poverty | George Eliot | GE
spent £5,000 establishing, with the help of Henry Sidgwick
and Michael Foster
, a three-year studentship in physiology at Cambridge
in memory of Lewes
, open equally to men and women. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 367 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 522 |
| 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | A year and a half after the death of her partner George Henry Lewes
, GE
got married: to their young friend and banker John Walter Cross
, in an Anglican
ceremony at St George's... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | George Eliot | GE
's historical novel Romola appeared serially in the Cornhill Magazine, with illustrations by Frederic Leighton
. Her partner G. H. Lewes
had just accepted, upon the departure of Thackeray
as editor in March... |
| Wealth and Poverty | George Eliot | GE
's income, once she began to write, quickly grew, in part because his experience in publishing made Lewes
a canny negotiator and strategist on her behalf in a context of variable publishing formats. In... |
| Textual Production | George Eliot | Its appearance had been delayed by the death of Lewes
. It sold 6,000 copies within four months, 15,000 within two years. Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 530 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | GE
was devastated when George Henry Lewes
, her partner of twenty-four years, died on 30 November 1878 at the age of sixty-one. She grieved intensely, withdrew from social contact, edited Lewes's unfinished work for... |
| 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | The two had been corresponding for some time before the first letter that survives from GE
, written on 16 October 1879. It is transparently a love-letter. It speaks of the coldness of the sunshine... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | George Eliot | As she moved on intellectually from her religious youth, she became steeped in the Higher Criticism of the Bible, and increasingly interested in alternative explanatory systems, particularly those of social science—including Herbert Spencer
... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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