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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 ]
Eliot denied George Henry Lewes was the model for Causabon; however, significant aspects of the character match with Lewes's experience as a man of science, including his response to criticism in "determin[ing] to prove his own theories scientifically infallible," his status as an "unfulfilled researcher," and his lack of success in garnering ...
George Eliot: Occupation: Novelist, poet, journalist, translator: ... George was Lewes's forename, and Eliot was "a good mouth-filling, easily pronounced word". ...
In 2009 a group of British and American scholars and writers, including philosopher Anthony O'Hear, OBE, director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, began publication of a "new series" online at fortnightlyreview.co.uk, [8] with the aim of extending Lewes's original editorial ambitions to modern politics, literature, philosophy, science, and art.
The novel includes many autobiographical elements and reflects the disgrace that George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) experienced while in a lengthy relationship with a married man, George Henry Lewes. [citation needed] Bintry Watermill, which depicted Dorlcote Mill in the 1997 TV series.
After the lack of success with Romola, George Eliot returned to the more familiar English provincial setting for Felix Holt, the Radical, and resumed her publishing relationship with Blackwood's Magazine. Both George Henry Lewes and John Blackwood were reportedly excited
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"Lewes had promised Blackwood that the Scenes would show the clergy in their 'human', rather than their 'theological' aspect. In fact, Eliot found the two aspects inseparable." [24] Both "Mr Gilfil's Love Story" and "Janet's Repentance" are more concerned with an important female character than the clergyman, notwithstanding the title of the ...