Jenny Miles

Stamp suggests that ML entertained a romantic feeling for Jenny Miles which was not reciprocated.

ML remained throughout her life a close if not always harmonious friend of Jenny Miles (sister of the rector of Bingham), from the time that she worked in that area (possibly for the Miles family)...

In these straits she found her friends worse than useless; they had never experienced poverty, far less starvation. Jenny Miles apparently reproached her with the fact that George Eliot , Charlotte Yonge , Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In poor health, she was nearly penniless at this time, and wrote in her diary of the humiliation of asking friends for small loans.Mary Aitken Carlyle , Carlyle's niece and amanuensis, responded to...