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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Reception | George Eliot | Many friends of GE
including Edith J. Simcox
, plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight
, believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes
for his tireless protection of GE |
| 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... |
| Publishing | George Eliot | George Henry Lewes
persuaded Blackwood
to undertake this unusual mode of publication, because Middlemarch was too long to fit the three-volume format which was by now the staple of the circulating library. They hoped to... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
| politics | Emily Davies | Under the direction of Charlotte Manning
, five students began studying at the College at Benslow House, Hitchin, in October 1869. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 210, 219-20 |
| Occupation | Auguste Comte | AC
's work strongly influenced John Stuart Mill
, George Henry Lewes
, George Eliot
, and especially Harriet Martineau
, who produced an English translation and abridgement of the philosopher's work. AC
was concerned... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | The book arose from FPC
's belief that We want a System of Morals which shall not entangle itself with sectarian creeds, nor imperil its authority with that of tottering Churches; but which shall be... |
| Publishing | Caroline Clive | After she became established as a novelist, CC
was approached by the editors of the new Once a Week in April 1859 with a request to write a serial for them: she was their first... |
| 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... |
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