William Edward Hartpole Lecky

FPC 's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot , Frances Sarah Colenso and her husband Bishop Colenso (while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett , Charles Kingsley , W. E. H. Lecky , Sir Charles Lyell

Lawless made a number of other friends, acquaintances, and admirers through her writing, including Margaret Oliphant , an early friend and critic, Rhoda Broughton , George Meredith , Aubrey de Vere , Mary Augusta Ward

This is a social progressivist argument, trading in chauvinistic notions of British cultural and racial superiority, and strongly dependent on the notion of inherited proclivities as well as faith in social systems as shapers of...

After FPC published her analysis of the impact of biblical criticism and science on orthodox Christianity in Dawning Lights, An Inquiry Concerning the Secular Results of the New Reformation in 1868, W. E. H. Lecky

First reviews of With Essex in Ireland were mixed. The New York Tribune felt the work to be uneven, partly on account of Harvey's narration and partly for lack of an adequately engaging plot.

The book elicited strong reactions, most of them positive. It was highly praised by Philip Kent , who wrote a long article about it instead of his usual shorter reviews in Life, a weekly...

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

When G. H. Lewes became editor of the Fortnightly Review, GE contributed to the first issue, 15 May 1865, with a review entitled The Influence of Rationalism (on a recent book by William Lecky