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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 |
| Publishing | George Eliot | At about the same time that GE
took on the Westminster Review, she also began reviewing for The Leader, a weekly recently launched by Thornton Hunt
and George Henry Lewes
. Two uncomplimentary... |
| Textual Production | George Eliot | When G. H. Lewes
became editor of the Fortnightly Review, GE
contributed to the first issue, 15 May 1865, with a review entitled The Influence of Rationalism (on a recent book by William Lecky |
| Textual Features | George Eliot | The passionate desire evinced here for women to be held to the highest standards, instead of treated with condescending gallantry, undoubtedly informed GE
's adoption of a male pseudonym when she herself began to write... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | Marian Evans (later GE
) first met her future partner George Henry Lewes
, as a member of the literary circles in which she now moved. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 1: 366-7 Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 92 |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | Marian Evans (later GE
) left London for Germany with George Henry Lewes
, the married writer, editor, and scientist with whom she was to live for the rest of his life. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton. 178 |
| 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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