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 |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Auguste Comte | AC
's work strongly influenced John Stuart Mill
, George Henry Lewes
, George Eliot
, and especially Harriet Martineau
, who produced an English translation and abridgement of the philosopher's work. AC
was concerned... |
| politics | Emily Davies | Under the direction of Charlotte Manning
, five students began studying at the College at Benslow House, Hitchin, in October 1869. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 210, 219-20 |
| 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... |
| Publishing | George Eliot | In submitting this anonymous manuscript to Blackwood
, Lewes
invoked the names of Oliver Goldsmith
(author of The Vicar of Wakefield) and of Jane Austen
. The firm of Blackwood
turned out to be... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Reception | Geraldine Jewsbury | Many readers, including George Henry Lewes
, were suspicious of this novel's sympathetic portrait of manufacturers, and speculated that Marian Withers was Jewsbury's response to Elizabeth Gaskell
's Mary Barton, which had presented factory... |
| 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 |
| Residence | George Eliot | Marian Evans (later GE
) and George Henry Lewes
returned from the Continent to England, where they soon settled at East Sheen, near Richmond and just outside London. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 137 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 181 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
was also responsible for the George Eliot
entry in the famous tenth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, published in 1902. Written under the title Cross, Mary Ann, this is a somewhat idiosyncratic... |
| 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 |
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