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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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 An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends.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
John Ruskin wrote shortly after its appearance, I think Aurora Leigh the greatest poem in the English...
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
George Henry Lewes
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...
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...
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.
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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...
Textual Production Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Matilda Betham-Edwards mentions BLSB 's essay re-afforestation essay Australian Forests and Algerian deserts, which was shown to George Henry Lewes one day in 1868 and printed in the Pall Mall Gazette the day after...
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, p. vi, 354 pp.
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Education Matilda Betham-Edwards
Because of her mother's early death, MBE , she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce.
124
Apart from the family library, a half-guinea annual subscription to the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution
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...

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