George Lillie Craik
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Standard Name: Craik, George Lillie,, 1798 - 1866
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock nursed George Lillie Craik (who was eleven years her junior, and nephew of critic and historian George Lillie Craik
) at her home after he had a leg amputated as a result of... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Craik | A critic, historian, and author, George Lillie Craik
was born at Kennoway in Fife in 1798. His best-known work was A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest... |
| Friends, Associates | Dinah Mulock Craik | Their circle of friends included the critic and historian George Lillie Craik
, Camilla Toulmin
, John Westland Marston
, Alexander Macmillan
(the publisher), Charles Edward Mudie
(founder of Mudie's Lending Library
), and the... |
| Reception | Georgiana Craik | In a letter to GC
's father
dated 11 December 1862, George Eliot
wrote that she had read one of GC
's stories for children, So-Fat and Mew-Mew. She described it as a little... |
| Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | The narrator is a male invalid named Phineas Fletcher, a descendent of the poet
(1582-1650) whose name he shares. He has an intense (at least on his side) homosocial relationship with the title character. |
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