George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3)

On Emerson.

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Francis Newman.

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It may be noted as a curious verification of this presentiment that "Scenes of Clerical Life" were published in 1856 – just seven years later.

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Mrs. Hennell.

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Mr. and Mrs. C. Hennell.

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Mr. Charles Lewes tells me that when he went to stay with the d'Alberts at Geneva, many years afterwards, they mentioned how much they had been struck by her extraordinary discernment of the character of these two boys.

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"Philosophy of Necessity," by Charles Bray.

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Frederick Foxton, author of "Popular Christianity: its Transition State and Probable Development."

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"Man's Nature and Development," by Martineau and Atkinson.

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This was a merely formal and casual introduction. That George Eliot was ever brought into close relations with Mr. Lewes was due to Mr. Herbert Spencer having taken him to call on her in the Strand later in this year.

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Appeared in January, 1852, number of the Westminster Review, No. 1 of the New Series.

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Review of Carlyle's "Life of Sterling" in Westminster, Jan. 1852.

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Published in the April, 1852, number of the Westminster.

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Now Madame Belloc, who remained to the end one of George Eliot's closest friends.

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Mrs. Peter Taylor remained a lifelong and a valued friend of George Eliot's, and many interesting letters in this volume are addressed to her. I am glad also to take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to her for procuring for me two other sets of correspondence – the letters addressed to Mrs. Beecher Stowe and to Mrs. William Smith.

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Afterwards Madame Bodichon – one of the three or four most intimate friends of George Eliot, whose name will very often appear in subsequent pages.

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Funeral oration on the Duke of Wellington.

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Correcting Leader proofs for Mr. Lewes.

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Advertised in 1853-54 as to appear by "Marian Evans" in "Chapman's Quarterly Series," but never published.

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Lord Acton tells me he first heard this bon-mot, in 1855, related of Immanuel Bekker, the philologist.

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Translated and adapted from the French, "La joie fait peur," by Mr. Lewes, under the name of Slingsby Lawrence.

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A wretched forehead.

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First line of Schiller's "Song of the Bell."

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"Gentlemen, do you know the story of the man who railed at the sun because it would not light his cigar?"

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Goose-neck.

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