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.
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press.
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One of the leading Victorian men of letters, he is nevertheless remembered chiefly as the partner of George Eliot .

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Publishing George Eliot
G. H. Lewes submitted it, as his own work, to publisher George Bohn , but their negotiations quickly collapsed with rancour on both sides. The work was not published until 1981.
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press.
154
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
Publishing George Eliot
At about the same time that GE took on the Westminster Review, she also began reviewing for The Leader, a weekly recently launched by Thornton Hunt and George Henry Lewes . Two uncomplimentary...
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 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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
Publishing George Eliot
In submitting this anonymous manuscript to Blackwood , Lewes invoked the names of Oliver Goldsmith (author of The Vicar of Wakefield) and of Jane Austen . The firm of Blackwood turned out to be...
Residence George Eliot
Marian Evans (later GE ) and George Henry Lewes returned from the Continent to England, where they soon settled at East Sheen, near Richmond and just outside London.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
137
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
181
Literary responses George Eliot
Lewes , who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters,
Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press.
3: 10
was vindicated when printing after printing was called for (15,000 copies...
Family and Intimate relationships George Eliot
GE informed her brother Isaac of the relationship between her and Lewes : she made no pretence they were actually married, but she called him her husband and signed Marian Lewes.
Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press.
2: 331-2
Publishing George Eliot
This departure from her usual publisher, Blackwood , was precipitated by a princely offer from George Smith of the Cornhill of £10,000 (the largest offer ever, although they eventually settled on £7,000 for copyright over...

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