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...
Literary responses
Emily Lawless
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.
New York Tribune.
(28 December 1890): 14
Literary responses
Olive Schreiner
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...
Literary responses
Frances Power Cobbe
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
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
Textual Production
George Eliot
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
Timeline
26 March 1838
Historian William Edward Hartpole Lecky
was born in Dublin, Ireland.
1865
William Lecky
published his popular History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe.
March 1869
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
published his History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, a treatise on morality and theology that sanctioned the sexual double standard.
22 October 1903
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
, historian, died at Onslow Gardens, Kensington.
Texts
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne. Longmans, Green, 1911. http://University of Guelph Library, http://University of Guelph Library.