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George Henry Lewes

  

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George Henry Lewes : History of Philosophy

'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and George Henry Lewes's History of Philosophy. He was even prepared to acknowledge the "genius" of Jude the Obscure, though he would have preferred a happy ending'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Pyke      Print: Book

  

George Henry Lewes : letter

Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride & Prejudice" or "Tom Jones" than any of the Waverley novels? I had not seen "Pride & Prejudice" till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book and studied it. And what did I find? An accurate daguerrotyped portrait of a common-place face ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Manuscript: Letter

  

George Henry Lewes : Review of Charlotte Bronte, Shirley

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 10 January 1850: 'I have received and perused the "Edinburgh Review" [containing negative review of "Shirley" by her friend G. H. Lewes] -- it is very brutal and savage. I am not angry with Lewes -- but I wish in future he would let me alone -- and not write again what makes me feel so cold and sick as I am feeling just now --'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George Henry Lewes : [a farce]

'G went at 8 and I spent the evening alone for the first time since we have been at Berlin. I read G's Farce - Robson's adventure with a Russian Princess'.

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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown

  

George Henry Lewes : [draft of Life of Goethe]

'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the passage in which he says he cannot presume to say that he thoroughly understands Spinoza. After coffee read aloud G's M.S. of the Leipsic and beginning of the Strasburg Period. G. finished Lear - sublimely powerful!'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown, MS of Lewes' book

  

George Henry Lewes : book in MS, perhaps his Life of Goethe

'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown, book M.S.

  

George Henry Lewes : part of the MS of his Life of Goethe

'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book

  

George Henry Lewes : MS of his Life of Goethe

'Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book

  

George Henry Lewes : [MS article on Mad Dogs]

'Read... G's article on Mad Dogs which he was going to send to Edinburgh'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Sheet, MS of article

  

George Henry Lewes : Aristotle, a Chapter from the History of Science

'I am now in the middle of G's "Aristotle", which gives me great delight'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Sheet, prob. in MS as publ. 1864

  

George Henry Lewes : [article on Grote's Plato]

'in the evening I read G.'s article on Grote's Plato'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Manuscript: Unknown, ms of article

  

George Henry Lewes : [letter]

'I walked to Grossmutter's and read her a letter of G's'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Manuscript: Letter

  

George Henry Lewes : "Principles of Success in Literature

'Began to read "Principles of Success in Literature".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

George Henry Lewes : [Social Function...]

'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown

  

George Henry Lewes : Physical Basis of Mind, The

'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

George Henry Lewes : [journal, 1874]

'Wrote memories and lived with him all day. Read in his diary 1874 - "Wrote verses to Polly - Wrote verses on Polly".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown, journal

  

George Henry Lewes : [various works Eliot was revising]

'Began Revision of Problem II. Revised Introduction. Finished 2nd reading of Psychological Principles'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown

  

George Henry Lewes : Spanish Drama, The

'Read my darling's book on the Spanish Drama'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

  

George Henry Lewes : [first article on Goethe]

'Read my darling's first article on Goethe'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown

  

George Henry Lewes : [probably] Problems of Life and Mind; Third Series: Mind as a Function of Organism

'Reading Problem III'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown

  

George Henry Lewes : [on language]

'read my darling's M.S. on Language'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown

  

George Henry Lewes : [article on Philosophy in France]

'Made list of his articles, and read His article on Philosophy in France, 1843'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Unknown

  

George Henry Lewes : [essay on Dwarfs and Giants]

'Read 'Dwarfs and Giants' with which many memories are connected of far off Richmond Days'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Unknown

  

George Henry Lewes : Biographical History of Philosophy, A

'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

George Henry Lewes : Life and Works of Goethe, The

'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

George Henry Lewes : Life and Works of Goethe

'Finished reading "Life and Works of Goethe" with great admiration and delight.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

George Henry Lewes : [letters to George Eliot]

'I read his letters, and packed them together, to be buried with me. Perhaps that will happen before next November'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Letter

  

George Henry Lewes : Life of Goethe

Letter to Barbara Leigh Smith from Bessie Raynor Parkes, 19 March 1856: 'What shall I say about Goethe? When I have done it I shall write to Marian - I don't see the self-development theory you see in him'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Bessie Raynor Parkes      Print: Book

  

George Henry Lewes : Biographical History of Philosophy

'But by a lucky chance I happened upon a book included in Lubbock's "hundred" -George Henry Lewes's "Biographical History of Philosophy". It came just when I needed it and to my extreme delight and mounting excitement opened before me an entirely new world of adventure.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson      Print: Book

  

George Henry Lewes : Ranthorpe

[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to G. H. Lewes, 22 November 1847:] 'I have now read "Ranthorpe." I could not get it till a day or two ago; but I have got it and read it at last; and in reading "Ranthorpe" I have read a new book -- not a reprint -- not a reflection of any other book, but a [italics]new book[end italics]. 'I did not know such books were written now. It is very different to any of the popular works of fiction; it fills the mind with fresh knowledge. Your experience and your convictions are made the reader's; and to an author, at least, they have a value and an interest quite unusual.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

  

George Henry Lewes : Ranthorpe

Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 29 March 1848:

'Mr Lewes mentioned in the last note I received from him that he had just finished writing his new novel [...] I shall long to read it, if it were only to get a further insight into the author's character. I read "Ranthorpe" with lively interest — there was much true talent in its pages. Two-thirds of it I thought excellent, the latter part seemed more hastily and sketchily written.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Book

  

George Henry Lewes : 'Currer Bell's Shirley'

Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 10 January 1850:

'I have received and perused the "Edinburgh Review" — it is very brutal and savage. I am not angry with Lewes, but I wish in future he would let me alone, and not write again what makes me feel so cold and sick as I am feeling just now.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Serial / periodical

  

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