Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
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Cultural formation | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter (later BW
) underwent a religious crisis in late adolescence; she experienced a short-lived conversion to traditional Anglican Christianity
in 1875. After that she returned to looking for alternatives—Buddhism and other Eastern religions... |
Cultural formation | Constance Naden | She was baptised into the Church of England
but while she lived with them attended, as they did, several different Baptist
chapels. CN
later became a student of science and a sceptic in matters of... |
Education | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice said she was the least favoured of the Potter girls, and had little education. There is disagreement among biographers as to how far she shared her sisters' tuition by resident governesses in a wide... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | The close relationship of Marian Evans (later GE
) with Herbert Spencer
came to an end after it became clear that he was not interested in intimacy. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995. 151-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | Lewes was married. He and his wife had agreed as rational free-thinkers that monogamy was unnatural. He had thus tolerated her relationship with his friend Thornton Hunt
, and supported her children by Hunt, who... |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | They made a friend of George Meredith
some time before 1890 and visited him often. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge MooreEditors , J. Murray, 1933. 66 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Grey | The Shirreffs were a sociable family whose friends and acquaintances were varied. The scientist Mary Somerville
, geologist Sir Charles Lyell
, and Sir William Grove
, inventor of the Grove battery, were numbered among... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | She had, however, a delight in meeting and observing people with cultural capital. Other acquaintances included James Anthony Froude
, writer; Jane, Lady Franklin
(widow of the Arctic explorer, and a traveller in her own... |
Friends, Associates | Olive Schreiner | Bertram was the first Freethinker Schreiner had encountered, and he strongly influenced her life, although she knew him for only three days. He lent her a copy of Herbert Spencer
's First Principles. Spencer's... |
Friends, Associates | Beatrice Webb | Their closest friends were statesman R. B. Haldane
, Labour leader Arthur Henderson
, Liberal politician Herbert Samuel
, G. B. Shaw
, and political psychologist Graham Wallas
, the last two both Fabians. They... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Shirreff | ES
's circle of friends included Sir William Grove
(inventor of the Grove battery), scientist Mary Somerville
, lawyer and Royal Society president Lord Wrottesley
, astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy
, Sir John Herschel |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot
, Frances Sarah Colenso
and her husband Bishop Colenso
(while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett
, Charles Kingsley
, W. E. H. Lecky
, Sir Charles Lyell |
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 | L. S. Bevington | By this year LSB
had met and grown quite close to the social scientist and founder of social Darwinism, Herbert Spencer
. This became one of the longest and most influential friendships of her life. Domingue, Jackie Dees. Doctrine and Dynamite. Texas A and M, 2000. 14 C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967. 9: 228 |
Health | Constance Naden | While in India CN
contracted a serious fever, which kept [her] a prisoner Hughes, William Richard, Charles Lapworth, W. A. Tilden, and Robert Lewins. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son, 1890. 43 |