Herbert Spencer

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

They made a friend of George Meredith some time before 1890 and visited him often. (When he sent them a signed copy of Modern Love, they were inspired to dance a Dionysic dance...

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...

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...

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...

CN presented several papers on evolution and sociology to the sociological section of the Birmingham Natural History Society (devoted to the principles of Herbert Spencer ).

CN argues here that absolute knowledge is impossible because of the unavoidable element of subjectivity. Although this sounds as if anything beyond our senses must be essentially unknowable, so that even its existence becomes...

Those returning thanks for complimentary copies included Herbert Spencer , Samuel Smiles (full of profound truth), Charles Lapworth (an education to read), and William Tilden (who politely dissents from Lewins's opinion...

As a philosophic thinker, CN won the admiration not only of Lewins but also of Herbert Spencer —who, however, felt that her early death proved the unsuitability of philosophy for women: the mental powers so...

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 .

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 .