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Education | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Because of her mother's early death, MBE
, she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 124 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Following his death Charles Collins
(Wilkie
's brother), with his wife (the former Kate Dickens
) and family, were the main sources of support for ATR
and her sister. Between 1,500 and 2,000 mourners... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | Marian Evans (later GE
) first met her future partner George Henry Lewes
, as a member of the literary circles in which she now moved. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Haight, Gordon S.Editor , Yale University Press, 1978. 1: 366-7 Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996. 92 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith J. Simcox | Her feelings for the novelist developed to a passionate intensity: her love was idolatrous, to use her own word. For several years she regularly and formally celebrated the anniversary of her first encounter with... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | Marian Evans (later GE
) left London for Germany with George Henry Lewes
, the married writer, editor, and scientist with whom she was to live for the rest of his life. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995. 178 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Stead | Within a year CS
had become the lover of her American manager at work. William James Blech (later Blake)
, whom she called Wilhelm at first and later Bill. He was both an investment... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | A year and a half after the death of her partner George Henry Lewes
, GE
got married: to their young friend and banker John Walter Cross
, in an Anglican
ceremony at St George's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | GE
was devastated when George Henry Lewes
, her partner of twenty-four years, died on 30 November 1878 at the age of sixty-one. She grieved intensely, withdrew from social contact, edited Lewes's unfinished work for... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | The two had been corresponding for some time before the first letter that survives from GE
, written on 16 October 1879. It is transparently a love-letter. It speaks of the coldness of the sunshine... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | After HM
fanned the gossip ensuing from Evans's liaison with George Henry Lewes
the personal relationship foundered, although a positive literary influence on the younger writer survived. Blain, Virginia. “Thinking Back Through our Aunts: Harriet Martineau and Tradition in Women’s Writing”. Women: A Cultural Review, pp. 223 - 39. passim |
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 | Geraldine Jewsbury | She and her brother
entertained such visitors as George Henry Lewes
, dramatist Westland Marston
, Italian exile and journalist Antonio Gallenga
, manufacturer William Edward Forster
, mechanical engineer Joseph Whitworth
, poet and... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Their friendship proved to be life-long. BLSB
—though she said she could offer no advice while Eliot was making the contentious decision to live with George Henry Lewes
—promised to stand by her friend no... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | In July that year her friendship with George Eliot
had been cemented and her opinion of G. H. Lewes
radically improved by a seaside visit to this unconventional couple at Tenby in Wales. (By... |