She later suppressed and then downplayed the extent of her acting experience, but she retained some friendships from this era, including actress Florence Haydon
and managers William Creswick
and Henry Nye Chart
(to whom she...
Friends, Associates
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (later GE
) established formative friendships with Cara Bray
, her husband Charles
, and her sister, Sara Hennell
.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
34-5, 43
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Constance Naden
CN
was a friend of the two poets who shared the name Michael Field
(who also came from Birmingham) and of the medical doctor Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
(who presumably did not hold against her the...