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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. 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 |