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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | George Eliot | GE
spent £5,000 establishing, with the help of Henry Sidgwick
and Michael Foster
, a three-year studentship in physiology at Cambridge
in memory of Lewes
, open equally to men and women. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 367 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 522 |
| Wealth and Poverty | George Eliot | GE
's income, once she began to write, quickly grew, in part because his experience in publishing made Lewes
a canny negotiator and strategist on her behalf in a context of variable publishing formats. In... |
| Travel | George Eliot | George Henry Lewes
and Marian Lewes moved on from Weimar to Berlin, where they stayed until March 1855. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 128 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 169-74 |
| Travel | Charlotte Brontë | CB
also had a confrontation with George Henry Lewes
. She attended the House of Commons
, the Chapel Royal
, where she saw her hero the Duke of Wellington
, and a meeting of... |
| Travel | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
spent a week with George Eliot
, George Henry Lewes
, and Barbara Bodichon
at an old rectory at Swanmore in the Isle of Wight, which Bodichon had rented for a Christmas holiday. Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, p. vi, 354 pp. 250-1 |
| Travel | Henry James | HJ
travelled in England and Europe. While in England he introduced himself to some of the most important writers of the day, including George Eliot
, George Henry Lewes
, and Charles Darwin
. Tóibín, Colm. “A Man with My Trouble”. London Review of Books, pp. 15-18. 16 Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon. 365 Gale, Robert L. A Henry James Encyclopedia. Greenwood. xix |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophie Veitch | George Eliot reviews the recently published collection by Eliot's widower, J. W. Cross
(George Eliot's Life as Related in her Letters and Journals) and a biography by F. W. H. Myers
, but... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Hume Clapperton | JHC
also writes approvingly of free love, particularly George Eliot
's decision to join in domestic partnership with George Henry Lewes
. Eliot's decision, she says, was clearly motivated by Lewes's legal inability to obtain... |
| Textual Production | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Matilda Betham-Edwards
mentions BLSB
's essay re-afforestation essay Australian Forests and Algerian deserts, which was shown to George Henry Lewes
one day in 1868 and printed in the Pall Mall Gazette the day after... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Brontë | CB
declined Thornton Hunt
's invitation to write for the Leader, which he was starting with George Henry Lewes
. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 633 |
| Textual Production | George Eliot | GE
's historical novel Romola appeared serially in the Cornhill Magazine, with illustrations by Frederic Leighton
. Her partner G. H. Lewes
had just accepted, upon the departure of Thackeray
as editor in March... |
| Textual Production | George Eliot | Its appearance had been delayed by the death of Lewes
. It sold 6,000 copies within four months, 15,000 within two years. Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 530 |
| Textual Production | George Eliot | When G. H. Lewes
became editor of the Fortnightly Review, GE
contributed to the first issue, 15 May 1865, with a review entitled The Influence of Rationalism (on a recent book by William Lecky |
| Textual Production | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
was also responsible for the George Eliot
entry in the famous tenth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, published in 1902. Written under the title Cross, Mary Ann, this is a somewhat idiosyncratic... |
| Textual Features | George Eliot | The passionate desire evinced here for women to be held to the highest standards, instead of treated with condescending gallantry, undoubtedly informed GE
's adoption of a male pseudonym when she herself began to write... |
Timeline
2 January 1828: The first issue of the Athenæum, founded...
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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...
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July 1835
The first issue of The British and Foreign Review; or, European Quarterly Journal was published.
1851: French medical researcher Charles-Edouard...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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15 May 1865
The first issue of the Fortnightly Review appeared, edited by George Henry Lewes
.
7 October 1865: Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed...
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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...
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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.