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Addison, Joseph, 49

Aeschylus, 373

Airlie, Lady (née Stanley), 427

Albert, Prince, 3, 4

Allbutt, Thomas Clifford, 365, 369, 379, 393, 408, 421, 442

Amberley, Lady (née Stanley), 379–80

Andersen, Hans Christian, 116

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, 433

Arbury estate, 9, 10, 11, 62, 316

Arbury Hall, 1, 10, 11, 14, 15, 42, 43, 259, 300

Aristotle, 195

Arnold, Mary, 406, 416,
see
Ward, Mrs Humphrey

Arnold, Matthew, 376, 400

Ashweek, Elizabeth,
see
Willim, Elizabeth

Atkinson, Henry, 147, 180

Austen, Jane, 50, 257, 486

Aylesford, Lord, 19, 61, 69, 70, 72, 74

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 219

Bacon, Francis, 49

Bagehot, Walter, 378

Baker, Martha (‘Nursie’), 239, 313, 334, 412

Balzac, Honoré de, 157

Bamford, Samuel, 371

Barclay, Jessie, 40

Barrett Browning, Elizabeth, 49, 216

Becket, Thomas à, 457

Bell, Currer,
see
Brontë, Charlotte

Belloc, Bessie Rayner (née Rayner Parkes), 85, 160–62, 168, 180–82, 209, 219, 230–31, 246, 306, 327, 357, 368, 369, 379, 406–7, 465, 471, 473–4, 486

Belloc, Hilaire, 230

Belloc, Louis, 230

Bentham, Jeremy, 116, 153, 407

Berlin, stay in, 221–27

Blackwood, John, 189, 288–303, 323–5, 330, 334, 336, 337, 357, 390, 399, 401, 429, 434, 457–9, 466, 467, 469

Adam Bede
, 276, 277, 280, 283, 287

Daniel Deronda
, 440, 442–6, 452, 455

Felix Holt
, 375–6, 382, 383

and ‘George Eliot’ pseudonym, 256, 258, 261–6, 273, 291, 300, 301, 303

initial relationship with, 256–66

Middlemarch
, 16, 391, 395, 409–14, 418, 425

Mill on the Floss, The
, 299–301, 311, 319, 321, 323–4, 325

Romola
, 343, 346, 347, 349, 354

Scenes of Clerical Life
, 257, 258, 284

Silas Marner
, 337, 339, 340, 342

Blackwood, Julia, 342

Blackwood, Major William, 258, 262, 266, 292, 297, 325, 331, 340, 376, 427, 475

Blackwood, William, 331, 349, 353, 443, 445

Blackwood’s Magazine
, 243, 256, 301

Blagdon, Isa, 398

Blanc, Louis, 124

Blandford Square, London, 162, 184, 333, 336, 340, 345–7, 353, 354, 356

Blind, Mathilde, 132

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 341

Bodichon, Barbara (neé Leigh Smith), 161, 183, 322, 355, 370, 393, 424, 432

acceptance of Lewes ‘marriage’ by, 230, 231, 246, 313–14

correspondence with, 294, 311, 328, 353, 357, 430, 432, 433, 455, 476

courted by John Chapman, 144, 246

discussions on religion, 327

feminist activities, 369, 370, 406–7, 486

friendship with, 161, 209

interest in Catholicism, 416–17

pseudonym, knowledge of, 294, 310–11

Boeckh, August, 197

Bonn, Henry George, 226, 237, 444

Bonham Carter family, 101

Booksellers Association, 158

Brabant, Dr Robert, 90–93, 95, 96, 100, 103, 105–7, 122, 136, 142–4, 158, 160, 165, 192, 201, 211, 228, 424, 471

model for Edward Casaubon [
Middlemarch
], 96

Brabant, Mrs Robert, 92–3

Brabant, Rufa,
see
Call, Rufa

Bracebridge, Charles Holte, 304

Braddon, Mary, 311

Bray, Cara (Caroline, née Hennell),
passim

acceptance of Lewes ‘marriage’ of, 86

approval of Cross marriage, 476

beliefs of:

effect of on GE, 67, 82

Unitarian, 72, 74

correspondence with,
passim

death of, 484

disapproval of Lewes ‘marriage’, 212, 213, 232

financial problems of, 89, 112, 368, 432

friendship with, 82–7, 92, 93, 95–7, 101, 102, 105, 106

and knowledge of GE’s pseudonym, 305–6

Lewes relationship kept secret from, 206, 209

matchmaking, 106

objection to Lewes, 200, 301

open marriage of, 144, 161, 188

extramarital affair of, 84–5

portrait of GE, 87

reconciliation with, 232, 306

Spinoza translation, 95

unconventional life of, 82–6

warning against Dr Brabant, 93

Bray, Charles, 107, 116, 138, 212, 213, 241, 242, 304, 305, 432

beliefs of:

effect of on GE, 67, 82, 84

Necessitarianism, 72

correspondence with,
passim

defending GE’s reputation, 214

financial problems of, 89, 112, 241, 368, 432

friendship with, 82–8, 91, 92, 107

on GE’s character, 125

and GE – Lewes relationship, 209, 212, 231, 232

GE’s relationship with, 67, 79, 85, 86, 91, 201

interest in phrenology, 87, 476

and knowledge of GE’s pseudonym, 305, 306

model for Mr Brooke [
Middlemarch
], 419

objection to Lewes, 200, 301

open marriage of, 144, 161, 188

adultery of, 85, 136, 186

and pseudonym, 304, 306

reforming zeal of, 82–3, 116

unconventional life of, 82–6, 115

Bray, Elinor (Nelly), 84, 363

Bray, Elizabeth,
see
Pears, Elizabeth

Bremer, Frederika, 160, 169

Brewitt, Susanna,
see
Chapman, Susanna

Brezzi, Joseph, 44, 55, 60

Brion, Frederika, 223

Brontë, Charlotte (Currer Bell), 157, 201, 206, 216, 251, 310, 393

Bronte, Emily (Ellis Bell), 472

Brontë sisters, 104, 263, 486

Brown, John, 3

Browning, Oscar, 379, 400, 423

Browning, Robert, 216, 357, 378, 384, 398

Buchanan, James, 261

Buchanan, Nancy (née Wallington), 28, 261

Bull, Mrs, 52, 59

Bullock-Hall, Elizabeth (née Cross), 403

Bullock-Hall, William Henry, 403, 457

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 286, 341, 350, 377, 410

Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm, 415

Burke, William, 000407

Burne-Jones, Edward, 380, 404, 458, 482

Burne-Jones, Georgie (Georgiana), 380, 404, 405, 415, 421, 458, 463, 464, 474, 475, 476

Burne-Jones, Margaret, 402

Burne-Jones, Philip, 402

Burney, Charles Parr, 190

Burton, Frederic, 357, 360, 381, 397, 432

Bury, Dr, 314

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 53, 84, 192, 429, 440

Call, Rufa (Elizabeth Rebecca, née Brabant, then Hennell), 90–92, 95–7, 106, 169, 231, 245, 362, 396, 412

Cambridge Street, Hyde Park 183, 209, 210

Carlyle, Jane, 194, 198, 267, 288, 289

Carlyle, Thomas, 110, 138, 150, 155, 159, 185, 190, 194, 195, 217, 218, 221, 229, 288, 470

Cash, John, 306

Cash, Mary (née Sibree), 63, 81, 86, 88–9, 108, 114, 161, 236, 306, 410, 418, 428

Castletown, Lady, 431

Chambers, Robert, 215, 380, 424

Chapman, Beatrice, 139, 140

Chapman, Ernest, 139, 140

Chapman, John, 163–4, 165, 169, 170, 187, 191, 208, 216, 221, 225–6, 228, 234, 246, 249–50, 286, 301, 307–9, 471

disregard for conventional morality of, 144, 145

financial problems, 177, 182–4

interest in phrenology, 137

link to Lewes, 143, 174, 183–6, 215

publication of Feuerbach translation, 184, 206

publication of Strauss translation, 100, 120, 137

relationship with GE, 85, 141–2, 144–6, 149–51, 164, 201

unconventional life of, 136, 139, 140, 144

work with GE on
Westminster Review
, 142, 145, 149–60, 163, 177, 178, 182–4

Chapman, Susanna (née Brewitt), 139–41, 145–9, 151, 162

Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 481

Chilton, Sally,
see
Ebdell, Sally

Clark, Dr Andrew, 480, 481

Clark, William, 400

Clarke, Chrissey (Christiana, née Evans) [GE’s sister], 17, 62, 68, 69, 70, 78, 241, 268, 285, 315, 316, 407

childhood, 22, 26, 28, 33, 37, 70, 78

estrangement from, 271–2

marriage, 29, 38, 39, 113

poverty of, 112–15, 180, 241

model for Gritty Moss [
The Mill on the Floss
], 113

Clarke, Clara [GE’s niece], 127

Clarke, Edward [GE’s brother-in-law], 29, 39, 68, 112–15, 180, 183, 407

Clarke, Emily [GE’s niece], 241, 316, 362, 412, 428, 433, 457

Clarke, Fanny [GE’s niece], 268

Clarke, Katy [GE’s niece], 268, 327

Clarke, Robert [GE’s nephew], 241

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 361

Cobden, Richard, 159

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 90, 376

Collins, Wilkie, 159

Combe, George, 83, 156, 178, 183, 209, 272

and phrenology, 178, 214, 216

Comte, Auguste, 190, 195, 197, 208, 216, 314, 365

Congreve, Maria (nee Bury), 86, 314, 315, 355, 365, 366, 378, 408, 425, 474, 477, 478

Congreve, Richard, 314, 315, 365, 366, 378, 379, 385, 474, 477

Conolly, John, 83

Conrad, Joseph, 484

Corbould, Edward Henry, 4

Corn Laws, 21, 82

repeal of, 7, 164

Courtauld, Samuel, 158

Cousin, Victor, 224

Coventry, ‘Bird Grove’, 61, 62, 68, 70, 72, 73, 82, 99, 113, 117

Cowper, William, 46, 49

Cross, Anna [JC’s mother], 403

Cross, Eleanor, 465, 473

Cross, Florence, 478

Cross, Johnny (John Walter):

friendship with GE, 188, 403, 427, 430, 431, 439–40, 456, 458, 463, 465

GE biography, 18, 21, 22, 25–7, 38, 43, 76, 80, 109, 144, 175, 211, 262, 271, 343, 403

marriage to GE, 3, 18, 35, 109, 200, 229, 235, 469–83

suicide attempt of, 4, 479

Cross, Mary, 427

Cross, William [JC’s brother], 458, 479, 480

Cumming, John, 236, 247

D’Albert Durade, Francois, 126, 13032, 134, 142, 143, 159, 169, 327, 330, 331, 334, 335, 359, 386

model for Philip Wakem [
The Mill on the Floss
], 132

D’Albert Durade, Julie, 130–32, 469

Dallas, E. S., 287, 325, 376

Dante Alighieri, 264, 361, 432, 470

Darwin, Charles, 6, 7, 54, 157, 164, 174, 244, 460

Darwin, Erasmus, 364

Davies, Emily, 370, 406

Delane, John Thaddeus, 293–4

Descartes, René, 195

Deutsch, Emanuel, 399, 441

model for Mordecai
[Daniel Deronda]
, 379, 441

Dickens, Charles, 5, 159, 193, 198, 267, 280, 289, 298, 299, 347, 350, 394, 402, 418

Dickinson, Emily, 423, 486

Disraeli, Benjamin, 108, 376, 441, 452, 460

Dixon, William, 294

Dou, Gerard, 275

Dresden, 275, 276

Ebdell, Revd Bernard Gilpin, 31, 259

model for Mr Gilfil [
Scenes
], 31, 259

Ebdell, Sally (née Chilton), 259

Edward of Kent, Prince, 1

Eliot, George (Mary Anne, Mary Ann, Marian Evans; Mary Ann Cross; ‘Polly’):

character:

ambition, 42, 46, 50, 75, 75, 224–5, 418

attitude to feminism, 8, 77, 369–70, 486

charitable contributions, 433