Robert Herbert Brabant

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

The book makes disparaging allusion to George Eliot and to the dislikable Robert Brabant .