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, 1991.
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One of the leading Victorian men of letters, he is nevertheless remembered chiefly as the partner of George Eliot .
George Henry Lewes, head and shoulders, drawn for Popular Science Monthly, 1876, from a photograph of 1858. He is in half-profile looking to the right, with moustache, side-burns, and jaw-line beard.

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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, 1994.
633
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 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, 1968.
530
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...
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...
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, 1898, p. vi, 354 pp.
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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, 1996.
128
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968.
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 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, 3 Jan. 2008, pp. 15-18.
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Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995.
365
Gale, Robert L. A Henry James Encyclopedia. Greenwood, 1989.
xix
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, 1996.
367
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968.
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...

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