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George Henry Lewes (/ ˈ l uː ɪ s / ⓘ; 18 April 1817 – 30 November 1878) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He was also an amateur physiologist . American feminist Margaret Fuller called Lewes a "witty, French, flippant sort of man". [ 1 ]
William Makepeace Thackeray, Mr and Mrs George Henry Lewes with Thornton Leigh Hunt, date unknown, National Portrait Gallery, London. Hunt married Katherine Gliddon in 1834 and they remained together until his death. [1] They lived a communal, apparently free love, lifestyle in Bayswater with two other married couples. One couple was Kate's ...
Anne Gliddon, George Henry Lewes, 1840, graphite and watercolor. Her portrait of George Henry Lewes, in graphite and watercolor [8] is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. The image was published in two books about Lewes, a book about both Lewes and George Eliot in the 1830s, and a literary book, J. L. May, George Eliot (1830)
In addition, Proteus Merman and his wife, Julia, share similarities with characters from Middlemarch, Casaubon and Dorothea, whose relationship can be compared with the relationship between George Eliot and her husband, George Henry Lewes. Eliot denied George Henry Lewes was the model for Causabon; however, significant aspects of the character ...
Scandalously and unconventionally for the era, she lived with the married George Henry Lewes as his conjugal partner, from 1854 to 1878, and called him her husband. He remained married to his wife and supported their children, even after she left him to live with another man and have children with him.
The adoption of a pen name also served to obscure Evans' somewhat dubious marital status (she was openly living with the married George Henry Lewes). [9] It was largely due to the persuasion and influence of Lewes that the three Scenes first appeared in John Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. [1]
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Though the anonymous review was by Eliot, Phillipson assumed it had been written by her partner George Henry Lewes and the pamphlet was a lengthy denunciation of Lewes. [4] A later volume, Songs on Italy (1862), was full of fulsome praise of Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi.