DOCSLIB.ORG

George Eliot in Society

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
George Eliot in Society George Eliot in Society George Eliot in Society Travels Abroad and Sundays at the Priory Kathleen McCormack The Ohio State University Press Columbus Copyright © 2013 by The Ohio State University. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCormack, Kathleen, 1944– George Eliot in society : travels abroad and Sundays at the Priory / Kathleen McCormack. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8142-1211-0 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-8142-9313-3 (cd) 1. Eliot, George, 1819–1880. 2. Novelists, English—19th century—Biography. I. Title. PR4681.M34 2013 823'.8—dc23 [B] 2012036644 Cover design by Laurence J. Nozik Text design by Juliet Williams Type set in Adobe Granjon Printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1992. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Michael and Andrea Rose and Lily with love CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The Big “S” 1 CHAPTER 2 Travels Abroad: Taking the Waters 37 CHAPTER 3 Months of Sundays 57 CHAPTER 4 Between Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda: Singers, Lovers, and Others 79 CHAPTER 5 The Salons, the Spas, and Daniel Deronda 111 CHAPTER 6 John Cross and the Last Spa 137 Appendix The Leweses’ Travels Abroad: A Chronology 155 Bibliography 157 Index 168 IllustRatioNS Chapter 1 1. George Eliot. Portrait by Frederic Burton 5 2. George Henry Lewes. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery London 11 3. Frederic Burton. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery London 13 4. Herbert Spencer. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery London 24 5. Charles Lee Lewes. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery London 25 6. Barbara Bodichon. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery London 26 7. The Priory, exterior. From photo by Cassell & Co., Lim. 27 8. The Priory drawing room. From J. W. Cross’s George Eliot’s Life in Letters 29 Chapter 2 9. Baden Baden. Author’s collection 39 Chapter 4 10. George Du Maurier. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery London 84 11. “The Two Thrones.” Punch, 7 June 1879 86 ix x Illustrations Chapter 5 12. Lady Castletown. Portrait by G. F. Watts 112 13. The Elisabethenbrunnen, Kurpark, Bad Homburg 114 Chapter 6 14. Bad Wildbad, the Bad Hotel on the Kurplatz 147 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS he society (less extensive than George Eliot’s, though only a touch less illustrious), both personal and professional, which I T have kept during the years I’ve been writing this book, has con- tributed much to its completion. On the professional side, I would like to thank my institution’s President Mark Rosenberg, always reliable for his dedication to the university and for a good-humored response to an e-mail. Provost Douglas Wartzok, Dean Kenneth Furton, and Associate Dean Nicol Rae have gratified me through taking generous and much appreci- ated notice of uninterrupted effort. James M. Sutton, Chair of the Depart- ment of English, provided singularly welcome fairness, as well as financial support for travels to collections and conferences. Among George Eliot specialists, Nancy Henry deserves hearty thanks for her constant accessibility and reliability as she drew on her formidable expertise concerning the life and works of George Eliot. Bill Baker’s inter- est and readiness to help and advise remains indispensable to myself as to every George Eliot scholar. To Dinah Birch and Kathryn Hughes, I offer thanks for timely help when urgently needed and also to George Griffith for sharing materials on several occasions. Finally, no Victorianist can do without thanking Patrick Leary, founder and list owner of the VICTORIA listserv, ever vigilant, always good-natured, and impeccably scholarly. I am also grateful to him for his permission to include excerpts from his person- ally transcribed diaries of Shirley Brooks in chapter 4. At Florida International University, I am perennially thankful for the integrity and interest in my work shown by Faculty Senate President Tom Breslin, as well as to FIU founding faculty member Darden Asbury Pyron, xi xii Acknowledgments who has for more than three decades offered encouragement, inspiration, and amusement in the face of daunting circumstances. With Meri-Jane Rochelson and Tometro Hopkins, at once good friends and invaluable colleagues, I have worked happily and productively side by side for more than twenty-five years. I could not do without them. I have also welcomed the congenial professionalism and intellectual companionship of Lynne Barrett, Ken Rogerson, Dan Guernsey, Marilyn Hoder-Salmon, Lauren Christos, and others too many to name. With office staff Marta Lee and Térèse Campbell, day-to-day matters in the Biscayne Bay English Depart- ment invariably receive instant attention and quick resolution, while they create a workplace atmosphere that remains ever tranquil, industrious, pleasant, and tolerant of eccentricities. Institutions and organizations which have helped my research either materially or in spirit include the collections (the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University and the British Library in Lon- don) where I conducted the majority of my work. Thanks as well to J. E. Flower, editor of the Journal of European Studies for permission to reprint parts of the article, “George Eliot: Poetry, Fiction, and European Spas,” which appeared in March 2010. I thank guest editor Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi for soliciting my work for placement among the illustrious contributors to the special 2011 number of George Eliot–George Henry Lewes Studies: The Cultural Place of George Eliot’s Poetry, as well as for the plenitude and originality of the essays it contains. In 2009 the FIU Faculty Senate Honors and Awards Committee created a high point in my life to spur me on: the University Faculty Research Award. More personally, I cannot omit Mary Free, who, in 2003, performed a miracle so potent that I can never thank her enough. FIU graduates Brenda Silva and Alicia Carazo, whose success in their fields of authorship and law have rewarded pedagogical efforts of years ago, are grown into friends in whose good will I have eternal confidence. The memories which I cherish of George Valcarce and Richard Fantina, though full of regret at their loss, sustain my belief in the continued existence on this earth, how- ever too briefly, of genuinely good people. Among family members, thanks to my mother Regina McCormack who continues to inspire us all with her courage and independence of thought and action. I cannot overrate the happiness I gain from my beloved son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Andrea Gilbert. For Rose and Lily Gilbert, I declare my ineradicable love and the hope that, as they grow into women, we can share our lives in ever more meaningful ways. ABBREViatioNS GEL George Eliot Letters GHLL The Letters of George Henry Lewes GHLJ Diaries and Journals of George Henry Lewes H&J The Journals of George Eliot JWC George Eliot’s Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography xiii CHAPTER 1 Introduction The Big “S” Social acceptance could hardly go further. —Gordon Haight I light up every Sunday to see my friends but go out smokily, like a lamp out of order, on Monday. —George Eliot Letters, 1 January 1874 n June of 1877, freshly arrived in Surrey for their first summer at a country home of their own, George Eliot and George Henry I Lewes delighted in their new “property” (GEL 6:386). Lewes, writing to John Walter Cross, describes it as “more ravishing than we fan- cied it—especially in this splendid weather—and the walks and drives are so much better than Society! (With a big S)” (GEL 6:386). In addition to his satisfaction with the Heights, Lewes’s letter affirms that he and George Eliot had by this time acquired a group of friends and acquaintances of such stature that they regarded themselves as moving in Society—with the capital letter. Having outlived and overlived the period of social ostracism that followed their non-marital union in 1854, they now mixed comfort- ably, not albeit at the most elite (royal) levels, but nevertheless in an exclu- sive urban and international circle. This progression from ostracism through celebrity occurred partly at the Leweses’ own well-attended gatherings, famously known as Sundays at the Priory. From the time that George Eliot and Lewes began cohabit- ing, through his death in 1878, their social life reflected the most extreme contradictions: from social exclusion directed at their legally non-marital status in their earlier years together, through the 1870s, when they enjoyed a program of frequent social events—concerts, opera, dinners, weekends, 1 2 Chapter 1 recitals, excursions, and salons—crowded with many of the most impor- tant and respected of Victorian contemporaries. George Eliot’s fiction reflects this gradual but extreme change, as the social level of her central characters rises from the simple rural folk of Adam Bede through the lords and ladies of Daniel Deronda. Ever since the mid-to-late 1860s, when George Eliot’s novels had firmly established her as one of England’s most successful novelists—and with only Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and Impressions of Theophrastus Such left to write—the Leweses had been dividing their years into three (not necessarily contiguous) seasons, which consisted of their winter res- idence in London at the Priory, their travels abroad, and their summer leases, usually in Surrey. Of the three locations, only the last offered respite from their active social lives. Abroad, they often encountered well-to-do friends and acquaintances from their London circle.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • MIDDLEMARCH Adam Roberts Epigraphs and Mirrors A
    MIDDLEMARCH AdAm RobeRts Epigraphs and Mirrors A AdAm RobeRts d A m Using epigraphs as a lens to open up new vistas, this study explores a wide range R of connectons. Moving freely between epigraphs and the main text, Roberts obe succeeds in throwing fresh light on the manifold ‘middleness’ of Middlemarch and the richness and sophistcaton of George Eliot’s realism. R ts John Rignall In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautonary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitaton to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an atempt to do just that. Roberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning of a text, and that thus carries important resonances for the way Eliot’s novels generate their meanings. In this lively and provoking study, he tracks down those allusions and quotatons that have hitherto gone unidentfed by scholars, examining their MIDDLEMARCH relatonship to the text in which they sit to unfurl a broader argument about the novel – both this novel, and the novel form itself. Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors is both a study of George Eliot and a meditaton on the textuality of fcton. It is essental reading for specialists and students of George Eliot, the nineteenth century novel, and intertextuality. It will also richly reward anyone who has ever taken pleasure in Middlemarch. This is the author-approved editon of this Open Access ttle. As with all Open Book publicatons, this entre book is available to read for free on the publisher’s website.
    [Show full text]
  • Towards Decolonial Futures: New Media, Digital Infrastructures, and Imagined Geographies of Palestine
    Towards Decolonial Futures: New Media, Digital Infrastructures, and Imagined Geographies of Palestine by Meryem Kamil A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (American Culture) in The University of Michigan 2019 Doctoral Committee: Associate Professor Evelyn Alsultany, Co-Chair Professor Lisa Nakamura, Co-Chair Assistant Professor Anna Watkins Fisher Professor Nadine Naber, University of Illinois, Chicago Meryem Kamil [email protected] ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2355-2839 © Meryem Kamil 2019 Acknowledgements This dissertation could not have been completed without the support and guidance of many, particularly my family and Kajol. The staff at the American Culture Department at the University of Michigan have also worked tirelessly to make sure I was funded, healthy, and happy, particularly Mary Freiman, Judith Gray, Marlene Moore, and Tammy Zill. My committee members Evelyn Alsultany, Anna Watkins Fisher, Nadine Naber, and Lisa Nakamura have provided the gentle but firm push to complete this project and succeed in academia while demonstrating a commitment to justice outside of the ivory tower. Various additional faculty have also provided kind words and care, including Charlotte Karem Albrecht, Irina Aristarkhova, Steph Berrey, William Calvo-Quiros, Amy Sara Carroll, Maria Cotera, Matthew Countryman, Manan Desai, Colin Gunckel, Silvia Lindtner, Richard Meisler, Victor Mendoza, Dahlia Petrus, and Matthew Stiffler. My cohort of Dominic Garzonio, Joseph Gaudet, Peggy Lee, Michael
    [Show full text]
  • George Eliot (1819-1880)
    GEORGE ELIOT (1819-1880) Chronology 1819 Mary Anne Evans born at at Arbury Farm in Warwickshire. Her father, Robert Evans, was an overseer at the Arbury Hall estate, and Eliot kept house for him after her mother died in 1836. Her father remarried and Mary Ann had a good relationship with her two stepbrothers, particularly with Isaac, who played marbles with her and took her fishing. 1824-35 At the age of five she was sent to a local boarding school while Isaac was sent to school in Coventry. She became sternly Christian after her strict religious schooling. 1836 Her mother died and her elder sister married the following year so Mary Ann became her father´s housekeeper and companion. She continue to learn languages and in her own words: "used to go about like an owl, to the great disgust of my brother". 1841 Her father moved to Coventry hoping her daughter would meet a potential husband there. Their next- door neighbour, Mrs Abijah Pears, was the sister of Charles Bray, an enthusiastic social reformer and freethinker. Eliot made friends with the members of the Bray family, and began reading such works as An Enquiry into the Origins of Christianity. Mary Ann soon informed her father that she had lost her faith in Church doctrine. She soon gave up her Evangelicism in favor of a non-sectarian spirituality based on a sense of common humanity. She refused to attend church with her father and began work on a translation from German of Life of Jesus, a rationalist reexamination of some Bible sections.
    [Show full text]
  • Cervantes and the Spanish Baroque Aesthetics in the Novels of Graham Greene
    TESIS DOCTORAL Título Cervantes and the spanish baroque aesthetics in the novels of Graham Greene Autor/es Ismael Ibáñez Rosales Director/es Carlos Villar Flor Facultad Facultad de Letras y de la Educación Titulación Departamento Filologías Modernas Curso Académico Cervantes and the spanish baroque aesthetics in the novels of Graham Greene, tesis doctoral de Ismael Ibáñez Rosales, dirigida por Carlos Villar Flor (publicada por la Universidad de La Rioja), se difunde bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 3.0 Unported. Permisos que vayan más allá de lo cubierto por esta licencia pueden solicitarse a los titulares del copyright. © El autor © Universidad de La Rioja, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2016 publicaciones.unirioja.es E-mail: [email protected] CERVANTES AND THE SPANISH BAROQUE AESTHETICS IN THE NOVELS OF GRAHAM GREENE By Ismael Ibáñez Rosales Supervised by Carlos Villar Flor Ph.D A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy At University of La Rioja, Spain. 2015 Ibáñez-Rosales 2 Ibáñez-Rosales CONTENTS Abbreviations ………………………………………………………………………….......5 INTRODUCTION ...…………………………………………………………...….7 METHODOLOGY AND STRUCTURE………………………………….……..12 STATE OF THE ART ..……….………………………………………………...31 PART I: SPAIN, CATHOLICISM AND THE ORIGIN OF THE MODERN (CATHOLIC) NOVEL………………………………………38 I.1 A CATHOLIC NOVEL?......................................................................39 I.2 ENGLISH CATHOLICISM………………………………………….58 I.3 THE ORIGIN OF THE MODERN
    [Show full text]
  • G. Robert Stange
    Recent Studies in Nineteenth-Century English Literature G. ROBERT STANGE THE FIRST reaction of the surveyor of the year's work in the field of the nineteenth century is dismay at its sheer bulk. The period has obviouslybecome the most recent playground of scholars and academic critics. One gets a sense of settlers rushing toward a new frontier, and at 'times regrets irra- tionally ithe simpler, quieter days. At first glance the massive acocumulation of intellectual labor which I have undertaken to describe seems to display no pattern whatsoever, no evidence of noticeable trends. Yet, to the persistent gazer certain characteristics ultimately reveal themselves. There is a discernible tendency? for example, to lapply the concepts of po'st Existential theology to the work of the Romantic poets; and in general these poets are now being approached with an intellectual excitement which is very different from the diffuse "romantic" enthusiasm of twenty or thirty years ago. It must also be said that the Victorian novelists continue to come into 'their own. lThe kind of serious attention 'thiatit is now assumed Dickens and George Eliot require was a rare thing a decade ago; it is undoubtedly good that this rigorous- thiough sometimes over-solemn-analysis is now being extended to 'some of 'the lesser novelists of the period. It is also still to be noted as an unaccountable oddity th'at reliable editions of even the most important nineteenth-century authors are not always available. Of the novelists 'only Jane Austen has so far 'been critically edited. The Victorian poets, with the exception of Arnold, are in textual chaos, and ;though critical editions of Arnold's and Mill's prose are forthcoming, other prose writers have not 'been much heeded.
    [Show full text]
  • Russell and the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club L by Jack Pitt
    Russell and the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club l by Jack Pitt IN HIS Autobiography Russell records his extreme satisfaction at being elected to the fraternal discussion group at Cambridge familiarly known as the Apostles. 2 In addition to including a number of congratulatory letters from elder Apostles, he writes: "The greatest happiness ofmy time at Cambridge was connected with a body whom its members knew as 'The Society,' but which outsiders, if they knew of it, called 'The Apostles.'''3 The sub­ sequent notoriety of this group obscured the fact that Russell I Gratitude is expressed to those at the University of Cambridge who kindly provided access to the Minutes of the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club. The Minutes have been invaluable in constructing an historical context in which to locate Russell's participation in the Club, and in providing many details pertinent to that participation. 2 Its complete name is the Cambridge Conversazione Society. Its character and history is treated in Paul Levy's fascinating study, G. E. Moore and the Cam­ bridge Apostles (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979). I am indebted to this book for many points of fact in this essay, especially as these concern members of the Society. The interested reader may also wish to consult Peter Allen's The Cambridge Apostles: The Early Years (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978). 3 Autobiography, 1872-1914 (Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1967), p. 91. 103 104 Russell winter 1981-82 Russell and the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club 105 maintained membership in other Cambridge societies. for The Athenaeum. Another of those in attendance was Alfred Philosophically the most important, and the one which will con­ Williams Momerie (Mummery), subsequently Professor of Logic cern us here, is the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club and Metaphysics (1880-91) at King's College, London, and also (CUMSC).
    [Show full text]
  • Emergentism As an Option in the Philosophy of Religion: Between Materialist Atheism and Pantheism
    SURI 7 (2) 2019: 1-22 Emergentism as an Option in the Philosophy of Religion: Between Materialist Atheism and Pantheism James Franklin University of New South Wales Abstract: Among worldviews, in addition to the options of materialist atheism, pantheism and personal theism, there exists a fourth, “local emergentism”. It holds that there are no gods, nor does the universe overall have divine aspects or any purpose. But locally, in our region of space and time, the properties of matter have given rise to entities which are completely different from matter in kind and to a degree god-like: consciousnesses with rational powers and intrinsic worth. The emergentist option is compared with the standard alternatives and the arguments for and against it are laid out. It is argued that, among options in the philosophy of religion, it involves the minimal reworking of the manifest image of common sense. Hence it deserves a place at the table in arguments as to the overall nature of the universe. Keywords: Emergence; pantheism; personal theism; naturalism; consciousness 1. INTRODUCTION The main options among world views are normally classifiable as either materialist atheism, pantheism (widely understood) or personal theism. According to materialist atheism, there exists nothing except the material universe as we ordinarily conceive it, and its properties are fully described by science (present or future). According to personal theism, there exists a separate entity (or entities) of a much higher form than those found in the 2019 Philosophical Association of the Philippines 2 Emergentism as an Option in the Philosophy of Religion material universe, a god or gods.
    [Show full text]
  • Review of 142 Strand: a Radical Address in Victorian London & George Eliot in Germany,1854-55: 'Cherished Memories'
    University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln The George Eliot Review English, Department of 2007 Review of 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London & George Eliot in Germany,1854-55: 'Cherished Memories' Rosemary Ashton Gerlinde Roder-Bolton Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ger Part of the Comparative Literature Commons, Literature in English, British Isles Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Ashton, Rosemary and Roder-Bolton, Gerlinde, "Review of 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London & George Eliot in Germany,1854-55: 'Cherished Memories'" (2007). The George Eliot Review. 522. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ger/522 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in The George Eliot Review by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Rosemary Ashton, 142 Strand: A RadicalAddress in Victorian London (Chatto & Windus, 2006). pp. xiv + 386. ISBN 0 7011 7370 X Gerlinde Roder-Bolton, George Eliot in Germany,1854-55: 'Cherished Memories' (Ashgate, 2006). pp. xiii + 180. ISBN 0 7546 5054 5 The outlines of Marian Evans's life in the years immediately preceding her emergence as George Eliot are well-known-her work for the Westminster Review, her relationships with Chapman, Spencer and Lewes, and then her departure with the latter to Germany in July 1854. What these two studies do in their different ways is fill in the picture with fascinating detail. In focusing on the house that John Chapman rented from 1847 to 1854 and from which he ran the Westminster Review and his publishing business, Rosemary Ashton recreates the circle of radical intellectuals that the future novelist came into contact with through living there and working as the effective editor of Chapman' s journal.
    [Show full text]
  • Middlemarch Ebook
    MIDDLEMARCH PDF, EPUB, EBOOK George Eliot | 736 pages | 01 Jan 1998 | Wordsworth Editions Ltd | 9781853262371 | English | Herts, United Kingdom Middlemarch PDF Book Sign in. Looking for More Great Reads? Previous Intro. Mayor Vincy 7 episodes, Also in Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. But I missed, more or less completely, the irony in the portrayal of Dorothea, with her righteous aspirations. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. He too brings a warm heart and a sympathetic imagination to his marriage, and he too finds himself subject to his intransigently selfish spouse because of these same admirable qualities. External Sites. An energetic man in his sixties with a soft Midlands accent, he has focussed on encouraging a revival of interest in Eliot among the populace of Nuneaton and Bedworth, a neighboring town where there is an impressive nineteenth-century almshouse, if little else. Powderell 3 episodes, Later, Dorothea comes to see Rosamond and Rosamond explains the misunderstanding, adding that Will loves Dorothea. A few weeks later, I also quit my job. BJ Gallagher, the author who took the quote as the title of her self-help book, lives in Los Angeles. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advances are threatening upheaval on every front. In addition to creating a thoroughgoing and rich portrait of the life of a small early 19th-century town, Eliot produced an essentially modern novel, with penetrating psychological insights and moral ambiguity. In what was the front hall and parlor, there are now slot machines and a pool table. Garth 5 episodes, Patrick Malahide See Article History.
    [Show full text]
  • The Role of George Henry Lewes in George Eliot's Career
    University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications -- Department of English English, Department of 2017 The Role of George Henry Lewes in George Eliot’s Career: A Reconsideration Beverley Rilett University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishfacpubs Part of the Comparative Literature Commons, English Language and Literature Commons, Modern Literature Commons, Reading and Language Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Rilett, Beverley, "The Role of George Henry Lewes in George Eliot’s Career: A Reconsideration" (2017). Faculty Publications -- Department of English. 186. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishfacpubs/186 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications -- Department of English by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies, Vol. 69, No. 1, (2017), pp. 2-34. doi:10.5325/georelioghlstud.69.1.0002 Copyright © 2017 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Used by permission. digitalcommons.unl.edudigitalcommons.unl.edu The Role of George Henry Lewes in George Eliot’s Career: A Reconsideration Beverley Park Rilett University of Nebraska–Lincoln Abstract This article examines the “protection” and “encouragement” George Henry Lewes provided to Eliot throughout her fiction-writing career. According to biographers, Lewes showed his selfless devotion to Eliot by encouraging her to begin and continue writing fiction; by foster- ing the mystery of her authorship; by managing her finances; by negotiating her publishing con- tracts; by managing her schedule; by hosting a salon to promote her books; and by staying close by her side for twenty-four years until death parted them.
    [Show full text]
  • The History of British Women's Writing, 1830–1880, Volume
    The History of British Women’s Writing, 1830–1880 The History of British Women’s Writing General Editors: Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan Advisory Board: Isobel Armstrong, Rachel Bowlby, Helen Carr, Carolyn Dinshaw, Margaret Ezell, Margaret Ferguson, Isobel Grundy, and Felicity Nussbaum The History of British Women’s Writing is an innovative and ambitious monograph series that seeks both to synthesise the work of several generations of feminist schol- ars, and to advance new directions for the study of women’s writing. Volume edi- tors and contributors are leading scholars whose work collectively reflects the global excellence in this expanding field of study. It is envisaged that this series will be a key resource for specialist and non-specialist scholars and students alike. Titles include: Liz Herbert McAvoy and Diane Watt (editors) THE HISTORY OF BRITISH WOMEN’S WRITING, 700–1500 Volume One Caroline Bicks and Jennifer Summit (editors) THE HISTORY OF BRITISH WOMEN’S WRITING, 1500–1610 Volume Two Mihoko Suzuki (editor) THE HISTORY OF BRITISH WOMEN’S WRITING, 1610–1690 Volume Three Ros Ballaster (editor) THE HISTORY OF BRITISH WOMEN’S WRITING, 1690–1750 Volume Four Jacqueline M. Labbe (editor) THE HISTORY OF BRITISH WOMEN’S WRITING, 1750–1830 Volume Five Holly Laird (editor) THE HISTORY OF BRITISH WOMEN’S WRITING, 1880–1920 Volume Seven Mary Joannou (editor) THE HISTORY OF BRITISH WOMEN’S WRITING, 1920–1945 Volume Eight Claire Hanson and Susan Watkins (editors) THE HISTORY OF BRITISH WOMEN’S WRITING, 1945–1975 Volume Nine Mary Eagleton and Emma Parker (editors) THE HISTORY OF BRITISH WOMEN’S WRITING, 1880–1920 Volume Ten History of British Women’s Writing Series Standing Order ISBN 978-0-230-20079-1 hardback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order.
    [Show full text]
  • Medical News
    1763 health, however, soon broke down and after practising spectacles, a fact which was often the cause of injury to for some years in Ireland he settled to private practice their eyesight. He therefore gave out that he would supply in London. He married in 1865 Agnes Letitia, youngest any applicant whom he considered deserving with a pair of daughter of the late William Robinson, LL.D., of Totten- spectacles, and in addition he personally saw the applicants ham, Middlesex, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law, J.P., and tested their sight. He was a firm supporter of the local and deputy-lieutenant of the county. He became a Fellow cottage hospital and dispensary, the former of which institu- of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society and served as tions was mainly founded by members of his family. a member of its council in 1894-95 ; he was also a member of the Clinical Society of London. Dr. Fitz-Patrick was, DEATHS OF EMIB’E1T FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN.-The however, far more than a talented physician. He was a deaths of the eminent men are ,,aLant in its highest sense and a linguist of high order, following foreign medical conversing in Italian, German, and French almost as announced :-Dr. Heinrich Laudahn, Director of the at the of 70 flnently as in his own language, while his attainments as Lindenburg Asylum, Cologne, age years.-Dr. the of a classical scholar were far above the average. More- Leopold Grossmann, doyen Hungarian ophthalmo- at the over, he could read modern Greek with as much ease and logists, age of 79 years.-Dr.
    [Show full text]