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 |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Charlotte Yonge | The Daisy Chain's popularity was long-lasting, though not so intense as that of The Heir of Redclyffe. Jane Austen
's nephew James Austen-Leigh
compared it to the work of Austen and Scott
... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Lynn Linton | Walter Savage Landor
admired this novel. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
| Literary responses | Eliza Lynn Linton | Athenæum reviewer H. F. Chorley
felt that the author was now raving like a pagan Pythoness—the female oracle whose pronouncements were not expected to be comprehensible: There is a positive untruth to the very... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Brontë | The reviewers proclaimed that the novel's descriptions of women's thoughts and emotions proved that the author was a woman. CB
took particular exception to a notice by her correspondent George Henry Lewes
in the Edinburgh... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh was, according to Barry Cornwall (father of Adelaide Procter
), the book of the season. Procter, Bryan Waller. An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. Editor Patmore, Coventry, Roberts Brothers. 113 |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Cross
, concerned to protect and dignify her, chose the more sententious passages and excluded the spontaneous, trivial, and humorous remarks Eliot, George. “Preface”. The George Eliot Letters, edited by Gordon S. Haight, Yale University Press, p. 1: ix - lxxvii. xiv |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | In its review of Last Poems, the Spectator considered EBBby far the greatest, if not the only, Englishwoman whose name deserves to be ranked among our genuine poets. The Spectator. F. C. Westley. (6 July 1861): 725 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | Some reviews applauded the courage of Ruth and its author; others decried the subject-matter and language. Henry Fothergill Chorley
's Athenæum review was mixed: he admired some scenes for their honesty and naturalness, but was... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming (Westminster ReviewOctober 1855), an examination of just the kind of narrow and rigidly Calvinistic religious thinking to which GE
herself had once subscribed, convinced Lewes
of her genius as a writer. Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 186 |
| Literary responses | Florence Dixie | Holyoake
, the dedicatee, in his prefatory piece (like W. Stewart Ross
commenting on The Story of Ijain) defends FD
's work not only by assertion (it is a a marvel of thought... |
| Literary responses | George Sand | Charlotte Brontë
, signing as C. Bell, expressed to G. H. Lewes
both praise and criticism for GS
: It is poetry, as I comprehend the word, which elevates that masculine George Sand, and... |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Gaskell | G. H. Lewes
found more favour when she heard him speak on speculative philosophy at the same place in February 1849—even though EG
later grew to detest him personally. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 218-19 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | George Eliot | The idea for the title had come to her while she lazed in bed one morning while on holiday at Tenby, at a time when Lewes
was encouraging her to try her hand at... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edna Lyall | Quotations about sympathy on the title-page come from George Henry Lewes
(in his life of Goethe) and from Arnold Toynbee
. EL
's earliest heroine, then Espérance de Mabillon, makes a cameo appearance with her... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine S. Macquoid | KSM
was said to have sought advice at the outset of her career from G. H. Lewes
, who advised her to put her knowledge of France to use. Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman. |
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