qtd. in
Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble, 1971.
131
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Emily Davies | In London, ED
met John Stuart Mill
and Harriet Taylor
. At Emily Faithfull
's parties, frequented by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Isa Craig
, and Bessie Rayner Parkes, she met Anthony Trollope
, Louis Blanc |
Friends, Associates | Frances Sarah Hoey | FSH
was also a close friend of her fellow-Catholic Edmund Downey
. Her husband was a friend of Richard Holt Hutton
, joint editor of The Spectator. She recalled, at the time of his... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas
began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever qtd. in Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble, 1971. 131 |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Reviewers, including E. S. Dallas
and Richard Holt Hutton
, were highly complimentary; many saw this as GE
's best work to date. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996. 253 |
Literary responses | George Eliot | John Morley
, anonymously in the Saturday Review, noted that [o]ne of the puzzles, which runs pathetically through Felix Holt as through Romola and the The Mill on the Floss, is the evil... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | This work was quite well reviewed, though Richard Holt Hutton
wrote that GE
found verse a fetter, and not a stimulus, qtd. in Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996. 294 |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Middlemarch's mode of publication meant that responses were coming in long before the book was complete, including formal reviews. R. H. Hutton
for instance, wrote no less than 6 reviews for the Spectator... |
Occupation | Christina Fraser-Tytler | The marriage seems to have fostered CFT
's vocation as a writer. Her husband's connection with R. H. Hutton
, editor of The Spectator, meant there was a steady stream of books for reviewing... |
Publishing | E. A. Dillwyn | EAD
contributed to The Spectator (edited by her father's friend R. H. Hutton
) during the 1880s and 90s, writing nearly sixty anonymous reviews for it. She was among the first to praise Robert Louis Stevenson |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | The narrator is a male invalid named Phineas Fletcher, a descendent of the poet
(1582-1650) whose name he shares. He has an intense (at least on his side) homosocial relationship with the title character. R. H. Hutton |
Textual Features | George Eliot | Feminist readers have chafed at the way that the delicately developed erotic relation between Dorothea and Casaubon's young relation Will Ladislaw leads Dorothea not only to a second marriage but to subsuming her life's work... |