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...
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...
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.
