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Publishing | George Eliot | From very early in her writing of this novel (begun on New Year's Day 1862), she lived with an agonizing fear of failure. The fact of writing about characters whose native language was Italian made... |
Publishing | George Eliot | She had written it by 27 September 1860 and used it, like The Lifted Veil, as a receptacle for negative feelings after writing The Mill on the Floss. She let George Smith
of... |
Publishing | George Eliot | She contributed a few short non-fiction pieces to the Pall Mall Gazette after George Smith
started it up in 1865 with Lewes as advisor, and also that year wrote a long review of William Lecky |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Her father's closest friends were from the literary elite: the ProctersAnne Procter
and the CarlylesJane Welsh Carlyle
. ATR
was friends with Dickens
's daughters, particularly Kate Dickens
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Friends, Associates | Charlotte Brontë | CB
's epistolary relationship with George Smith
, in which she often refers to herself by her masculine pseudonym, was playful and teasing. Biographer Juliet Barker
suggests that over the London visits and the Scottish... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | She meanwhile sustained her usual energetic and gossipy flow of correspondence with a wide range of literary and personal connections. She got caught up in the speculation surrounding the split between Effie
and John Ruskin |
Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
was reportedly engaged for a time in the later 1850s, but the identity of her suitor is not known. Publisher George Smith
records having admired her. He said that Charlotte Brontë
, when they... |
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