Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 |
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