Thornton Leigh Hunt

Standard Name: Hunt, Thornton Leigh

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships	George Eliot	Lewes was married. He and his wife had agreed as rational free-thinkers that monogamy was unnatural. He had thus tolerated her relationship with his friend Thornton Hunt , and supported her children by Hunt, who...
Family and Intimate relationships	George Henry Lewes	GHL married Agnes Jervis , who by 1849 was having an affair with his friend and fellow-writer Thornton Hunt . She and Lewes had four sons and a daughter; the daughter died soon after birth...
Friends, Associates	Eliza Lynn Linton	People she met at the Laurences' house included Thornton Leigh Hunt (who, with his wife, lived at the Laurences'); Smith Williams , reader for Smith and Elder ; Robert Owen , socialist; Frank Stone ...
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...
Publishing	Eliza Lynn Linton	She intended this novel to open the eyes of its readers to the oppression of women. Her hopes were very high: I confidently expect a success equal to Jane Eyre. This may sound vain...
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. 633

Leigh Hunt 's Autobiography was published, edited by his son Thornton Leigh Hunt .

G. H. Lewes and Thornton Hunt launched a progressive weekly called The Leader; it ran until 31 December 1859.

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