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Addison, Joseph
Aeschylus
Airlie, Lady (née Stanley)
Albert, Prince
Allbutt, Thomas Clifford
Amberley, Lady (née Stanley)
Andersen, Hans Christian
Anderson, Mrs Garrett
Arbury estate
Arbury Hall
Aristotle
Arnold, Mary, see Ward, Mrs Humphrey
Arnold, Matthew
Ashweek, Elizabeth, see Willim, Elizabeth
Atkinson, Henry
Austen, Jane
Aylesford, Lord
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Bacon, Francis
Bagehot, Walter
Baker, Martha (‘Nursie’)
Balzac, Honoré de
Bamford, Samuel
Barclay, Jessie
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth
Becket, Thomas à
Bell, Currer, see Brontë, Charlotte
Belloc, Bessie Rayner (née Rayner Parkes)
Belloc, Hilaire
Belloc, Louis
Bentham, Jeremy
Berlin, stay in
Blackwood, John
Adam Bede
Daniel Deronda
Felix Holt
and ‘George Eliot’ pseudonym
initial relationship with
Middlemarch
Mill on the Floss, The
Romola
Scenes of Clerical Life
Silas Marner
Blackwood, Julia
Blackwood, Major William
Blackwood, William
Blackwood’s Magazine
Blagdon, Isa
Blanc, Louis
Blandford Square, London
Blind, Mathilde
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Bodichon, Barbara (née Leigh Smith)
acceptance of Lewes ‘marriage’ by
correspondence with
courted by John Chapman
discussions on religion
feminist activities
friendship with
interest in Catholicism
as neighbour
pseudonym, knowledge of
Boeckh, August
Bohn, Henry George
Bonham Carter family
Brabant, Dr Robert
model for Edward Casaubon [Middlemarch]
Brabant, Mrs Robert
Brabant, Rufa, see Call, Rufa
Bracebridge, Charles Holte
Braddon, Mary
Bray, Cara (Caroline, née Hennell), passim
acceptance of Lewes ‘marriage’ of
approval of Cross marriage
beliefs of:
effect of on GE
Unitarian
correspondence with, passim
death of
disapproval of Lewes ‘marriage’
financial problems of
friendship with
and knowledge of GE’s pseudonym
Lewes relationship kept secret from
matchmaking
objection to Lewes
open marriage of
extramarital affair of
portrait of GE
reconciliation with
Spinoza translation
unconventional life of
warning against Dr Brabant
Bray, Charles
beliefs of:
effect of on GE
Necessitarianism
correspondence with, passim
defending GE’s reputation
financial problems of
friendship with
on GE’s character
and GE–Lewes relationship
GE’s relationship with
interest in phrenology
and knowledge of GE’s pseudonym
matchmaking of
model for Mr Brooke [Middlemarch]
objection to Lewes
open marriage of
adultery of
and pseudonym
reforming zeal of
unconventional life of
Bray, Elinor (Nelly)
Bray, Elizabeth, see Pears, Elizabeth
Bremer, Frederika
Brewitt, Susanna, see Chapman, Susanna
Brezzi, Joseph
Brion, Frederika
Brontë, Charlotte (Currer Bell)
Brontë sisters
Brown, John
Browning, Oscar
Browning, Robert
Buchanan, James
Buchanan, Nancy (née Wallington)
Bull, Mrs
Bullock-Hall, Elizabeth (née Cross)
Bullock-Hall, William Henry
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm
Burke, William
Burne-Jones, Edward
Burne-Jones, Georgie (Georgiana)
Burne-Jones, Margaret
Burne-Jones, Philip
Burney, Charles Parr
Burton, Frederic
Bury, Mr John
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Call, Rufa (Elizabeth Rebecca, née Brabant, then Hennell)
Cambridge Street
Carlyle, Jane
Carlyle, Thomas
Cash, John
Cash, Mary (née Sibree)
Castletown, Lady
Chambers, Robert
Chapman, Beatrice
Chapman, Ernest
disregard for conventional morality of
financial problems
interest in phrenology
link to Lewes
publication of Feuerbach translation
publication of Strauss translation
relationship with GE
unconventional life of
work with GE on Westminster Review
Chapman, Susanna (née Brewitt)
Cheyne Walk
Chilton, Sally, see Ebdell, Sally
Clark, Andrew
Clark, William
Clarke, Chrissey (Christiana, née Evans) [GE’S sister]
childhood
estrangement from
marriage
poverty of
model for Gritty Moss [The Mill on the Floss]
Clarke, Clara [GE’s niece]
Clarke, Edward [GE’s brother-in-law]
Clarke, Emily [GE’s niece]
Clarke, Fanny [GE’s niece]
Clarke, Katy [GE’s niece]
Clarke, Robert [GE’s nephew]
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Cobden, Richard
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collins, Wilkie
Combe, George
and phrenology
Comte, Auguste
Congreve, Maria (née Bury)
Congreve, Richard
Conolly, John
Conrad, Joseph
Corbould, Edward Henry
Corn Laws
repeal of
Courtauld, Samuel
Cousin, Victor
Coventry, ‘Bird Grove’
Cowper, William
Cross, Anna [JC’s mother]
Cross, Eleanor
Cross, Florence
Cross, Johnny (John Walter):
friendship with GE
GE biography
marriage to GE
suicide attempt of
Cross, Mary
Cross, William [JC’s brother]
Cumming, John
D’Albert Durade, François
model for Philip Wakem [The Mill on the Floss]
D’Albert Durade, Julie
Dallas, E. S.
Dante Alighieri
Darwin, Charles
Darwin, Erasmus
Davies, Emily
Delane, John Thaddeus
Descartes, René
Deutsch, Emanuel
model for Mordecai [Daniel Deronda]
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Emily
Disraeli, Benjamin
Dixon, William
Dou, Gerard
Dresden
Ebdell, Revd Bernard Gilpin
model for Mr Gilfil [Scenes]
Edward of Kent, Prince
Eliot, George (Mary Anne, Mary Ann, Marian Evans; Mary Ann Cross; ‘Polly’):
character:
ambition
attitude to feminism
charitable contributions
fear of abandonment
hypersensitivity
longing for praise, acclaim and love
maternal feelings
need for acclaim
need for attachment
need for intimacy
need for mother love
need for reassurance
period of serenity
sexual freedom
interests:
music
phrenology
politics
religious beliefs
science
life:
birth
care of father
childhood
childlessness
Cross, John, marriage to
education
estrangement from family
female acolytes
financial success
first marriage proposal
health
Lewes, George, ‘marriage’ to, see Lewes, George Henry
parallel with Queen Victoria
practice of birth control
social life
see also Eliot, George, relationships
physical appearance
pseudonym
relationships:
Bodichon, Barbara
Brabant, Dr Robert
Bray, Charles
Chapman, John
Evans, Isaac [brother]
Hennell, Sara
Lewes children
Lewis, Maria
Spencer, Herbert
work:
Adam Bede
background for
publishing of
success of
writing of
‘Affectation and Conceit’
‘Agatha’
‘Armgart’
articles for Coventry Herald
biological basis of
‘Brother Jacob’
‘Brother and Sister’ sonnets
‘The College Breakfast-Party’
Daniel Deronda
background for
plot
publication of
writing of
Felix Holt, The Radical
background
plot
success
Feuerbach’s The Essence of Christianity (translation)
‘How Lisa Loved the King’
Impressions of Theophrastus Such
The Legend of Jubal, and Other Poems
Middlemarch
background
plot
writing of
The Mill on the Floss
background
plot
publishing of
success of
writing of
novels, first thoughts of
‘O May I Join the Choir Invisible’
‘On Being Called a Saint’
Romola
plot
writing of
Scenes of Clerical Life
Silas Marner
background
Spanish Gypsy
Spinoza’s Ethics (translation)
Strauss’s The Life of Jesus (translation)
Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Engels, Friedrich
Evans, Chrissey, see Clarke, Chrissey
Evans, Christiana (née Pearson) [GE’s mother]
death of
model for Mrs Poyser [Adam Bede]
Evans, Edith, see Griffiths, Edith
Evans, Elizabeth (née Tomlinson) [GE’s aunt]
model for Dinah Morris
Evans, Fanny (Frances Lucy) [GE’s half-sister], see Houghton, Fanny
Evans, Fred [GE’s nephew], model for Fred Vincy [Middlemarch]
Evans, George [GE’s grandfather]
Evans, George [GE’s uncle]
Evans, Harriet [GE’S half-sister]
Evans, Harriet (née Poynton) [GE’s father’s first wife]
Evans, Isaac P. [GE’s brother]
childhood
GE’s attachment to
GE’s estrangement from
model for Tom Tulliver [The Mill on the Floss]
religious beliefs of
Evans, Jane [GE’s sister-in-law]
Evans, Robert [GE’s father]
GE’s care of
GE’s estrangement from
model for Adam Bede [Adam Bede]
model for Caleb Garth [Middlemarch]
Evans, Robert [GE’s half-brother]
Evans, Robert [GE’s half-brother’s son]
Evans, Samuel [GE’s uncle]
model for Seth Bede [Adam Bede]
Evans, Sarah (née Rawlins) [GE’s sister-in-law]
Evans, Thomas [GE’s uncle]
Evans, William [GE’s uncle]
Evarard, John [GE’s uncle]
Evarard, Mary (née Pearson) [GE’s aunt]
model for Aunt Glegg [The Mill on the Floss]
Faithful, Emily
Faraday, Michael
Faucit, Helen
feminism
feminist criticism of Mill
feminist reaction to GE
Feuerbach, Ludwig
Fields, James
Forbes, Edward
Forster, John
Fourier, Charles
Fox, William Johnson
model for Rufus Lyon [Felix Holt]
Franklin, Mary
Franklin, Rebecca
Frederick VIII, Prince
Freud, Sigmund
Froude, James Anthony
Fuller, Margaret
Garner, Ann (née Pearson) [GE’s aunt], model for Aunt Deane
Garner, George [GE’s uncle]
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Geneva, stay in
George III
Gibbon, Edward
Gladstone, William Ewart
Godwin, William
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe, Ottilie von
Goschen, George Joachim
Gosse, Edmund
Gray, Mrs Charles (Hannah Steane)
Great Exhibition
Greg, William Rathbone
Grenfell, Charlotte
Gresley, William
Griff House
dairy, model for Mrs Poyser’s dairy [Adam Bede]
Griffiths, Edith (née Evans) [GE’s niece]
Gruppe, Otto Friedrich
Gwyther, John
model for Amos Barton [Scenes]
Haight, Gordon
Hamley, W. G.
Handel, George Frederic
Hardy, Thomas
Hare, William
Harrison, Frederic
Hartley, David
Haydn, Franz Joseph
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Heger, Constantin
Heine, Heinrich
Helps, Alice
Helps, Arthur
Hennell, Cara, see Bray, Cara
Hennell, Charles Christian
Hennell, Mary
Hennell, Rufa, see Call, Rufa
Hennell, Sara
correspondence
death of
estrangement from
Feuerbach translation
friendship with
relation to John Chapman
Strauss translation
Herder, Wilhelm von
Herzl, Theodor
Hickson, W. E.
Hill, Gertrude, see Lewes, Gertrude
Hill, Octavia
Hodgson, William Ballantyne
Holbeche, Vincent
Holly Lodge
Home, Daniel
Homer
Hoppus, John
Houghton, Fanny (Frances Lucy, née Evans) [GE’s half-sister]
GE’s estrangement from
Houghton, Henry
Hughes, Susan
Hume, David
Hunt, Kate
Hunt, Leigh
Hunt, Thornton
Hunt, William Henry
Hutton, Richard Holt
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Hyde Park
Jackson, Martha
James, Alice
James, G.P.R.
James, Henry
Jenkins, Miss Bradley
Jervis, Swynfen
Jewsbury, Geraldine
Johnson, Elizabeth (née Pearson) [GE’s aunt], model for Aunt Pullet
Johnson, Richard [GE’s uncle]
Johnson, Samuel
Jones, John
model for Edmund Tryan [Scenes]
Jones, Owen
Jones, Owen, Mrs
Jones, W. P.
Josephus, Flavius
Jowett, Benjamin
Joyce, James
Kean, Edmund
Keble, John
Kempis, Thomas à
Kepler, Johann
King, W. H.
Kingsley, Charles
Kirk Hallam
Langford, Joseph
Laurence, Samuel
Lawrence, D. H.
Lawrence, Slingsby, see Lewes, George Henry
Leavis, F. R.
Leech, Mary [GE’s grandmother]
Lehmann, Frederick
Lehmann, Nina (née Chambers)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Leighton, Frederic
Leopold, King
Lewald, Fanny
Lewes, Agnes (née Jervis) [GHL’s wife]
Lewes, Bertie (Herbert) [GHL’s son]
Lewes, Charlie (Charles) [GHL’s son]
Lewes, Charles Lee
Lewes, Edmund Alfred
Lewes, Eliza (née Stevenson Harrison)
Lewes, Elizabeth, see Willim, Elizabeth
Lewes, Ethel Isabel
Lewes, George [son of Bertie]
Lewes, George Henry (‘Slingsby Lawrence’ and ‘Vivian’), passim
early life of
family of
as GE’s literary agent
as GE’s protector
GE’s relationship with
elopement
stability of
start of
unorthodox nature of
GE’s travels with
health
interest in biology
marriage of
physical appearance of
relationship to GE, affectionate
stability of
start of
scientific interests of
social life with GE
work of
Lewes, George, Studentship
Lewes, Gertrude (née Hill)
Lewes, John Lee [GHL’s father]
Lewes, Marian [daughter of Bertie]
Lewes, Mildred Jane
Lewes, Rose Agnes
Lewes, St Vincent Arthy [GHL’s son]
Lewes, Thornie (Thornton) [GHL’s son]
Lewis, Maria
Liebig, Justus von
Liggins, Joseph, and problem of pseudonym
Linton, Eliza (née Lynn)
Liszt, Franz
Lock, Mrs
Locke, John
Lombe, Edward
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Lott, Edward
Lucas, Samuel
Ludwigsdorf, Baronne de
Lyell, Charles
Lynn, Eliza (née Linton), see Linton, Eliza
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Mackay, Robert
Main, Alexander
Martin, Theodore
Martineau, Harriet
Martineau, James
Marx, Karl
Massey, Bartle
Masson, David
Maurice, F. D.
Mazzini, Giuseppe
Meredith, George
mesmerism
Michelet, Jules
Mill, James
Mill, John Stuart
Milner, Joseph
Milnes, Richard Monckton
Milton, John
Miss Lathom’s school
Molière, François
Montalembert, Charles René Forbes de
Moore, Thomas
More, Hannah
Morley, John
Mott, Lucretia
Mudie, Charles Edward
Müller, Dr
Munich, stay in
Munshi, the
Myers, F. W. H.
Napier, Macvey
Necessitarianism
Newdegate, Charles
Newdegate, Maria
Newdegate/Newdigate name change
Newdigate family
Newdigate, Francis Parker
Newdigate, Francis Parker, Colonel
Newdigate, Mrs
Newdigate, Roger
model for Sir Christopher Cheverel [Scenes]
Newman, Francis William
Newman, John Henry
Nichol, John Pringle
Nightingale, Florence
Noel, Edward
Noel, Robert
Norton, Charles
Norton, Grace
Norton, Mrs Charles
Nuneaton
model for Milby [Scenes]
‘Nursie’ (Martha Baker)
Oliphant, Margaret
Owen, Richard
Owen, Robert
Paget, Sir James
Parker-Newdigate family, see Newdigate family, individuals
Parkes, Bessie Rayner, see Belloc, Bessie Rayner
Parkes, Joseph
Pascal, Honoré de
Pattison, Emilia (née Strong)
model for Dorothea Brooke
Pattison, Mark
model for Edward Casaubon [Middlemarch]
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
Pears, Elizabeth (née Bray)
Pearson, Ann, see Garner, Ann
Pearson, Christiana, see Evans, Christiana
Pearson, Elizabeth, see Johnson, Elizabeth
Pearson, Isaac [GE’s grandfather]
Pearson, Mary, see Evarard, Mary
Pearson sisters [GE’s aunts]
model for Dodson aunts [The Mill on the Floss]
Peirce, Harriet
‘Peterloo’ incident
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)
Pigott, Edward
Plato
Poe, Edgar Allan
Positivism
Pownall, Elizabeth
Poynton, Harriet, see Evans, Harriet
Priestley, Joseph
Quinet, Edgar
Quirk, James
Rauch, Christian
Rawlins, Sarah, see Evans, Sarah
Regent’s Park
Reynolds, Dr
Richmond
Riehl, Wilhelm Heinrich von
Rive, Arthur de la
Robertson, Mr
Robinson, Henry Crabb
Rosehill
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rubens, Peter Paul
Rubinstein, Anton
model for Herr Klesmer [Daniel Deronda]
Ruskin, John
Sablé, Madame de
Sadler, Thomas
St Germain, Marquis de
St Germain, Marquise de
Sand, George
Savonarola, Girolamo
Sayn-Wittgenstein, Carolyne, Princess
Schelling, Friedrich
Schiff, Professor
Schiller, J.C. Friedrich von
Scholl, Gustav
Schopenhauer, Artur
Schumann, Clara
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, William Bell
Sedgwick, Sara
Senior, Jane
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Mary
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Sibree, John
Sibree, John, Sr
Sibree, Mary, see Cash, Mary
Sidgwick, Henry
Siebold, Frau von
Siebold, Karl von
Simcox, Edith
Simpson, George
Smith, Albert
Smith, Annie Leigh (nannie)
Smith, Barbara Leigh, see Bodichon, Barbara
Smith, Benjamin Leigh
Smith, Elisabeth Leigh
Smith, George
Smith, John Pye
Smith, Thomas Southwood
Smith, W. H.
Solmar, Henriette von
Spencer, Herbert
model for Theophrastus Such [Impressions of Theophrastus Such]
relationship with
Spencer, Revd Thomas
Spinoza, Benedict de
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
Stahr, Adolf
Stanley, Arthur
Stanley, Augusta
Stanley sisters
Stephen, Leslie
Stevenson Harrison, Eliza, see Lewes, Eliza
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Strand, The, stay at
Strauss, David Friedrich
GE’s translation
Stuart, Elma
Stuart, Roland
Taylor, Clementia
Taylor, Isaac
Taylor, Peter
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Tennyson, Lady
Tennyson, Mrs Lionel
Terborch, Gerard
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Tieck, Ludwig
Tilley, Elisabeth
Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de
Tomlinson, Elizabeth, see Evans, Elizabeth
Trollope, Anthony
Trollope, Anthony, Mrs
Trollope, Tom
Tugwell, George
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
Tyndall, John
Unitarian
Vallière, Madame de
Varnhagen von Ense, Karl August
Vehse, Eduard
Venice, stay in
Victoria (Vicky), Princess
Victoria, Queen
Victorian age:
characteristics of
end of
Villino Trollope
Vinet, Alexandre Rodolphe
Vivian, see Lewes, George Henry
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de
Wagner, Richard
Wallington, Mrs
Wallington, Nancy, see Buchanan, Nancy
Wandsworth
Ward, Mrs Humphrey, Mary Augusta (née Arnold)
Warwickshire
Watteau, Antoine
Watts, Francis
Weimar, Duke of
Weimar, stay in
Wesley, John
Westminster Review
Whewell, William
White, William Hale (Mark Rutherford)
Wicksteed, Charles
Wilberforce, William
Williams, John
Willim, Elizabeth (née Ashweek, later Lewes)
[GHL’s mother]
Willim, John
Witley, ‘The Heights’
Wollstonecraft, Mary (Mrs Godwin)
Woolf, Virginia
Woolner, Thomas
Wordsworth, William
Young, Edward