Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Hays | MH
and Ashurst began their undertaking with encouragement from George Henry Lewes
and William Macready
, both of whom were acquainted with Sand. Lewes strongly advised that in her translations MH
should make the works... |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Eliot | On 6 December 1857, by the time she had two short fictions (soon published as part of Scenes of Clerical Life) in print, GE
confided in her diary that she had once before embarked... |
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... |
Health | Jessie White Mario | By 1877 JWM
's health must have begun to fail: George Henry Lewes
was sufficiently concerned to consult a London doctor on her behalf. The physician prescribed rest (physical and mental) for a nervous ailment. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 112 |
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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | In May 1869 George Eliot
recorded in her diary Bodichon's steady friendship at the time when G. H. Lewes
's son Thornie
was dying of tuberculosis of the spine. Bodichon visited twice a week and... |
Friends, Associates | Anthony Trollope | Trollope was a friend of William Thackeray
, G. H. Lewes
, Richard Monckton Milnes
, George Eliot
, William Russell
, and John Everett Millais
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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