Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
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Robert Herbert Brabant
Standard Name: Brabant, Robert Herbert
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | GE
's work for Robert Brabant
was cut short following some personal intimacy between them: the most likely story seems to be that the elderly and married Brabant flirted with her, aroused her feelings, and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Lynn Linton | She seems to have received advances of an antipathetic and purely disgusting kind from Dr Robert Herbert Brabant
of Devizes, whom she later described with asperity in The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland. |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | Through the theological writer Dr Robert Herbert Brabant
(an early admirer of George Eliot), Lynn at this time met Walter Savage Landor
, whom she had long admired, and with whom she became close friends... |
| Occupation | George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans (later GE
) began to assist Robert Herbert Brabant
, retired doctor and former friend of Coleridge, in his research into the origins of Christianity. Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 49 Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton. 66 |
| Textual Production | George Eliot | As she began to form intellectual friendships, her letters became a record of her critical and literary mind. Biographer Rosemary Ashton
traces her fictional side to a letter she addressed to Charles Bray
in October... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Lynn Linton | The book makes disparaging allusion to George Eliot
and to the dislikable Robert Brabant
. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 49 |
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