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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... |
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
... |
Textual Features | George Eliot | Herbert Spencer
went to great lengths to keep secret GE
's letters to him (so entirely unconventional in their frank avowal of carefully considered but socially unsanctioned feelings); it is remarkable that he did not... |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Eliot | This essay begins from the seventeenth-century salonnière (who was also a maxim-writer in the manner of her friend the duc de La Rochefoucauld
, and may indeed have influenced him). It assesses the relative state... |
Reception | George Eliot | Nevertheless, in the month of publication Lewes had written to Herbert Spencer
at his wife's behest to deny categorically that the novel was hers. Spencer soon cooled in his relationship to the Leweses (out of... |
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. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray. 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... |
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... |
Leisure and Society | Constance Naden | CN
joined several debating societies, among them in this year the sociological section, founded in early 1883, of the Birmingham Natural History Society
, whose central concern was the work of Herbert Spencer
. Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 20-1 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Constance Naden | CN
delivered her essay entitled Data of Ethics (presumably on Herbert Spencer
's work of that title, 1879) to the sociological section of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society
. Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 22 Daniell, Madeline, and Constance Naden. “Memoir”. Induction and Deduction, edited by Robert Lewins and Robert Lewins, Bickers and Son, p. vii - xviii. ix |
Textual Production | Constance Naden | CN
made a visit back to Mason College
in Birmingham to deliver an address on Herbert Spencer
's The Principles of Sociology to the sociological section of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society
. Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 26, 51-2 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
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... |
Travel | Constance Naden | Instead of travelling out entirely by sea, as was usual, the two women went overland through Europe, visiting Vienna and proceeding down the Danube through Budapest on their way to Constantinople. After a pause... |
Health | Constance Naden | While in India CN
contracted a serious fever, which kept [her] a prisoner Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 43 |
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