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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Geraldine Jewsbury | She and her brother
entertained such visitors as George Henry Lewes
, dramatist Westland Marston
, Italian exile and journalist Antonio Gallenga
, manufacturer William Edward Forster
, mechanical engineer Joseph Whitworth
, poet and... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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/. |
| 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
... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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
... |
| 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... |
| 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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