Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press.
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George Henry Lewes
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Standard Name: Lewes, George Henry
Used Form: G. H. Lewes
At GHL
's death in 1878, Anthony Trollope
praised him as journalist, editor, critic, philosophical populariser, biographer, and scientific writer.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. 124 |
| 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... |
| 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. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 1: 366-7 Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 92 |
| 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. 178 |
| 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 | 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 | |
| Friends, Associates | Katharine S. Macquoid | KSM
was a close friend of fellow-writer Annie Keary
. She also knew John Morley
, George Henry Lewes
and George Eliot
. Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | She meanwhile sustained her usual energetic and gossipy flow of correspondence with a wide range of literary and personal connections. She got caught up in the speculation surrounding the split between Effie
and John Ruskin |
| Friends, Associates | Jessie White Mario | About this time JWM
was introduced to Thomas Adolphus Trollope
(another long-term English resident of Italy). She also knew George Henry Lewes
and later met his partner George Eliot
. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 104, 112 |
| Friends, Associates | Matilda Hays | By her twenties, MH
was well-acquainted with several prominent figures in England's social, political, and literary scene. Her circle included Mary Howitt
, Eliza Meteyard
, William Charles Macready
, Samuel Laurence
, Geraldine Jewsbury |
| 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, Vol. 1 , pp. 223-39. passim |
Timeline
2 January 1828: The first issue of the Athenæum, founded...
Writing climate item
2 January 1828
The first issue of the Athenæum, founded by James Silk Buckingham
, appeared.
July 1835: The first issue of The British and Foreign...
Writing climate item
July 1835
The first issue of The British and Foreign Review; or, European Quarterly Journal was published.
1851: French medical researcher Charles-Edouard...
Building item
1851
French medical researcher Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard
experimented with the effects of blood transfusion on the responsiveness of nerves in human corpses.
30 March 1851: G. H. Lewes and Thornton Hunt launched a...
Writing climate item
30 March 1851
G. H. Lewes
and Thornton Hunt
launched a progressive weekly called The Leader; it ran until 31 December 1859.
January 1860: The Cornhill Magazine, an influential literary...
Writing climate item
January 1860
The Cornhill Magazine, an influential literary monthly, first appeared in London with Thackeray
as editor and contributor; the first issue sold 110,000 copies.
7 February 1865: The first issue appeared of George Smith's...
Writing climate item
7 February 1865
The first issue appeared of George Smith
's innovative evening newspaper, The Pall Mall Gazette.
15 May 1865: The first issue of the Fortnightly Review...
Writing climate item
15 May 1865
The first issue of the Fortnightly Review appeared, edited by George Henry Lewes
.
7 October 1865: Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed...
National or international item
7 October 1865
Governor Edward Eyre
ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion which began at Morant Bay in Jamaica.
1878: The first telephone company in the UK began...
National or international item
1878
The first telephone company in the UK began operations, at Chislehurst, Kent; it enabled private communication by phone between two points only.
Texts
Lewes, George Henry. Comte’s Philosophy of the Sciences. H. G. Bohn, 1853.
Lewes, George Henry. Problems of Life and Mind. Trübner, 1879.
Lewes, George Henry. “The Lady Novelists”. A Victorian Art of Fiction: Essays on the Novel in British Periodicals 1851-1869, edited by John Charles Olmsted, Garland, 1979, pp. 39-51.
Lewes, George Henry. The Life and Works of Goethe. D. Nutt, 1855.