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.
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press.
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One of the leading Victorian men of letters, he is nevertheless remembered chiefly as the partner of George Eliot .

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Gaskell
She meanwhile sustained her usual energetic and gossipy flow of correspondence with a wide range of literary and personal connections. She got caught up in the speculation surrounding the split between Effie and John Ruskin
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
Some reviews applauded the courage of Ruth and its author; others decried the subject-matter and language. Henry Fothergill Chorley 's Athenæum review was mixed: he admired some scenes for their honesty and naturalness, but was...
Friends, Associates Matilda Hays
By her twenties, MH was well-acquainted with several prominent figures in England's social, political, and literary scene. Her circle included Mary Howitt , Eliza Meteyard , William Charles Macready , Samuel Laurence , Geraldine Jewsbury
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...
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...
Travel Henry James
HJ travelled in England and Europe. While in England he introduced himself to some of the most important writers of the day, including George Eliot , George Henry Lewes , and Charles Darwin .
Tóibín, Colm. “A Man with My Trouble”. London Review of Books, pp. 15-18.
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Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon.
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Gale, Robert L. A Henry James Encyclopedia. Greenwood.
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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...
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...
Literary responses Maria Jane Jewsbury
The warmest appreciation of MJJ 's Austen criticism came from George Henry Lewes in July 1859. He also, however, attributed the piece to Whately when he quoted extensively from it in an essay on Austen
Literary responses Marghanita Laski
The Times Literary Supplement printed a less positive review of the George Eliot biography, finding it too heavily reliant on a totally unreliable witness, Eliza Lynn Linton , whose envious and insensitive pronouncements on George...
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 ...
Literary responses Eliza Lynn Linton
Walter Savage Landor admired this novel.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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George Henry Lewes reviewed it at considerable length for the Athenæum. He considered writing convincing fiction about the Greeks an impossible task, because their ethos was so...
Literary responses Eliza Lynn Linton
Athenæum reviewer H. F. Chorley felt that the author was now raving like a pagan Pythoness—the female oracle whose pronouncements were not expected to be comprehensible: There is a positive untruth to the very...
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.
She dedicated this first book to...

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