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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophie Veitch | George Eliot reviews the recently published collection by Eliot's widower, J. W. Cross
(George Eliot's Life as Related in her Letters and Journals) and a biography by F. W. H. Myers
, but... |
| Friends, Associates | Anthony Trollope | Trollope was a friend of William Thackeray
, G. H. Lewes
, Richard Monckton Milnes
, George Eliot
, William Russell
, and John Everett Millais
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Stead | Within a year CS
had become the lover of her American manager at work. William James Blech (later Blake)
, whom she called Wilhelm at first and later Bill. He was both an investment... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edith J. Simcox | Her feelings for the novelist developed to a passionate intensity: her love was idolatrous, to use her own word. For several years she regularly and formally celebrated the anniversary of her first encounter with... |
| Literary responses | George Sand | Charlotte Brontë
, signing as C. Bell, expressed to G. H. Lewes
both praise and criticism for GS
: It is poetry, as I comprehend the word, which elevates that masculine George Sand, and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Following his death Charles Collins
(Wilkie
's brother), with his wife (the former Kate Dickens
) and family, were the main sources of support for ATR
and her sister. Between 1,500 and 2,000 mourners... |
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | After HM
fanned the gossip ensuing from Evans's liaison with George Henry Lewes
the personal relationship foundered, although a positive literary influence on the younger writer survived. Blain, Virginia. “Thinking Back Through our Aunts: Harriet Martineau and Tradition in Women’s Writing”. Women: A Cultural Review, Vol. 1 , pp. 223-39. passim |
| Friends, Associates | Jessie White Mario | About this time JWM
was introduced to Thomas Adolphus Trollope
(another long-term English resident of Italy). She also knew George Henry Lewes
and later met his partner George Eliot
. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 104, 112 |
| Health | Jessie White Mario | By 1877 JWM
's health must have begun to fail: George Henry Lewes
was sufficiently concerned to consult a London doctor on her behalf. The physician prescribed rest (physical and mental) for a nervous ailment. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 112 |
| Friends, Associates | Katharine S. Macquoid | KSM
was a close friend of fellow-writer Annie Keary
. She also knew John Morley
, George Henry Lewes
and George Eliot
. Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine S. Macquoid | KSM
was said to have sought advice at the outset of her career from G. H. Lewes
, who advised her to put her knowledge of France to use. Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman. |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edna Lyall | Quotations about sympathy on the title-page come from George Henry Lewes
(in his life of Goethe) and from Arnold Toynbee
. EL
's earliest heroine, then Espérance de Mabillon, makes a cameo appearance with her... |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | People she met at the Laurences' house included Thornton Leigh Hunt
(who, with his wife, lived at the Laurences'); Smith Williams
, reader for Smith and Elder
; Robert Owen
, socialist; Frank Stone
... |
Timeline
2 January 1828: The first issue of the Athenæum, founded...
Writing climate item
2 January 1828
The first issue of the Athenæum, founded by James Silk Buckingham
, appeared.
July 1835: The first issue of The British and Foreign...
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July 1835
The first issue of The British and Foreign Review; or, European Quarterly Journal was published.
1851: French medical researcher Charles-Edouard...
Building item
1851
French medical researcher Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard
experimented with the effects of blood transfusion on the responsiveness of nerves in human corpses.
30 March 1851: G. H. Lewes and Thornton Hunt launched a...
Writing climate item
30 March 1851
G. H. Lewes
and Thornton Hunt
launched a progressive weekly called The Leader; it ran until 31 December 1859.
January 1860: The Cornhill Magazine, an influential literary...
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January 1860
The Cornhill Magazine, an influential literary monthly, first appeared in London with Thackeray
as editor and contributor; the first issue sold 110,000 copies.
7 February 1865: The first issue appeared of George Smith's...
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7 February 1865
The first issue appeared of George Smith
's innovative evening newspaper, The Pall Mall Gazette.
15 May 1865: The first issue of the Fortnightly Review...
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15 May 1865
The first issue of the Fortnightly Review appeared, edited by George Henry Lewes
.
7 October 1865: Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed...
National or international item
7 October 1865
Governor Edward Eyre
ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion which began at Morant Bay in Jamaica.
1878: The first telephone company in the UK began...
National or international item
1878
The first telephone company in the UK began operations, at Chislehurst, Kent; it enabled private communication by phone between two points only.
Texts
Lewes, George Henry. Comte’s Philosophy of the Sciences. H. G. Bohn, 1853.
Lewes, George Henry. Problems of Life and Mind. Trübner, 1879.
Lewes, George Henry. “The Lady Novelists”. A Victorian Art of Fiction: Essays on the Novel in British Periodicals 1851-1869, edited by John Charles Olmsted, Garland, 1979, pp. 39-51.
Lewes, George Henry. The Life and Works of Goethe. D. Nutt, 1855.