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Houghton, Henry, 29, 68, 105, 270, 362, 363, 427

Hughes, Susan, 92–3

Hume, David, 195

Hunt, Kate, 196, 197, 199

Hunt, Leigh, 192–3, 195, 196

Hunt, Thornton, 144, 151, 186, 188, 196, 197, 199, 223, 238–9, 268, 432, 461

Hunt, William Henry, 162

Hutton, Richard Holt, 352, 384

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 208, 242, 243, 378, 462, 482

Hyde Park, London, 183

Jackson, Martha, 41, 44, 47–8, 54, 60, 62, 80, 106, 134

James, Alice, 403–4

James, G.P.R., 51

James, Henry, 190, 360–61, 377, 384, 388, 397, 403, 418, 423, 448, 457, 470, 484

Jebb, Lady, 480

Jenkins, Miss Bradley, 101

Jervis, Swynfen, 193–4

Jewsbury, Geraldine, 234–5

Johnson, Elizabeth (née Pearson) [GE’s aunt], model for Aunt Pullet, 16

Johnson, Richard [GE’s uncle], 16

Johnson, Samuel, 41, 482

Jones, Reverend John, 31

model for Edmund Tryan [
Scenes
], 261

Jones, Owen, 35, 357–8, 396, 411

Jones, Owen, Mrs, 313–14, 322, 358

Jones, W. P., 302–3

Josephus, Flavius, 39

Jowett, Benjamin, 399, 439

Joyce, James, 484

Kean, Edmund, 220

Keble, John, 54

Kempis, Thomas à, 151

Kepler, Johann, 470, 471

King, W. H., 303

Kingsley, Charles, 234

Kirk Hallam, 14, 22, 68

Langford, Joseph, 265, 291, 295, 297–8, 324, 345, 349, 458

Lathom’s, Miss (school at Attleborough) 22, 26, 28

Laurence, Samuel, 196, 336, 360

Lawrence, D. H., 484

Lawrence, Slingsby,
see
, George Henry

Leavis, F. R., 485

Leech, Mary [GE’s grandmother], 12

Lehmann, Frederick, 380

Lehmann, Nina (née Chambers), 380

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 195

Leighton, Frederic, 343

Leopold, King, 427

Lewald, Fanny, 222

Lewes, Agnes (née Jervis) [GHL’s wife], 186, 194, 196–200, 204, 207, 217, 218, 221–2, 228, 233, 234, 238–40, 268, 269, 313, 315, 329, 330, 339, 356, 385, 388, 396, 412, 432, 436, 458, 461

Lewes, Bertie (Herbert) [GHL’s son], 331, 335, 341, 354, 360, 387, 401, 412, 416, 432, 433, 466

Lewes, Charlie (Charles) [GHL’s son], 195, 239, 329, 3330, 332–5, 337, 340, 354, 356, 386, 388, 412, 417, 433, 458, 463, 464, 469, 474–8, 482

Lewes, Charles Lee, 189

Lewes, Edmund Alfred, 198, 432

Lewes, Eliza (née Stevenson Harrison), 401, 466, 469

Lewes, Elizabeth,
see
Willim, Elizabeth

Lewes, Ethel Isabel, 200

Lewes, George [son of Bertie], 401, 432, 466

Lewes, George Henry (’Slingsby Lawrence’ and ‘Vivian’),
passim

early life of, 188–94

family of, 315, 328–37, 386–9, 461

as GE’s literary agent, 184, 256–7, 287, 323, 353, 444

as GE’s protector, 36, 398

GE’s relationship with, 3, 44, 86, 161, 168, 173

elopement, 116, 168, 210–48

stability of, 132, 143, 312–13, 385–6, 416

start of, 173, 177–209

unorthodox nature of, 77, 85–6, 123, 132, 228–46, 313–15

GE’s travels with, 100, 210–12, 273–6, 326, 340–41, 390, 414–16, 438, 440–42, 455

health, 353–5, 360, 398, 436–7, 455, 456, 457

interest in biology, 242, 267

marriage of, 193–200

physical appearance of, 185, 460

relationship to GE, affectionate, 2;

stability of, 3;

start of, 173, 177–209

scientific interests of, 208, 242

social life with GE, 35, 356–8, 398–400

work of, 185, 217, 218, 223–8, 347, 367, 368, 459–60

Lewes, George, Studentship, 462

Lewes, Gertrude (née Hill), 386, 387, 390, 401, 407–8, 417, 433, 465

Lewes, John Lee [GHL’s father], 188–9, 339

Lewes, Marian [daughter of Bertie], 401, 432, 466

Lewes, Mildred Jane, 199, 269

Lewes, Rose Agnes, 199

Lewes, St Vincent Arthy [GHL’s son], 195, 199

Lewes, Thornie (Thornton) [GHL’s son], 195, 328–32, 334, 335, 345, 353, 360, 387–9, 390–91, 393, 396, 401, 409, 413, 414, 432

Lewis, Maria, 29, 30, 32, 37, 54–60, 62, 67, 68, 75, 78–80, 85, 99,
101, 103, 108, 125, 128, 202, 214, 261, 428

Liebig, Justus von, 274

Liggins, Joseph, and problem of pseudonym, 292–4, 296, 301–4, 314, 322, 368, 447

Linton, Eliza (née Lynn), 44, 93, 96, 136,, 138–9, 146, 196–7, 202, 424

Liszt, Franz, 219–20

Lock, Mrs, 124, 125

Locke, John, 65, 195, 264, 361

Lombe, Edward, 149, 158

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 398

Lott, Edward, 165, 166

Louise, Princess, 4, 5, 427–8

Lucas, Samuel, 266, 299

Ludwigsdorf, Baronne de, 124, 125

Lyell, Sir Charles, 54, 460

Lynn, Eliza (née Linton),
see
Linton, Eliza

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 227, 371

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 341

Mackay, Robert, 137–8, 147

Main, Alexander, 395, 396, 413, 435, 443

Martin, Theodore, 381

Martineau, Harriet, 64, 115, 116, 138, 147, 160, 178–80, 182, 208, 216, 217, 229, 251, 254, 263, 272, 403, 423, 429–30, 448

Martineau, James, 153, 154, 155, 157, 182, 216, 226, 429

Marx, Karl, 328

Massey, Bartle, 13

Masson, David, 158

Maurice, F. D., 350, 353

Mazzini, Giuseppe, 367

Meredith, George, 385

mesmerism, 107, 115, 178

Michelet, Jules, 197, 341

Mill, James, 116, 407

Mill, John Stuart, 85, 150, 152–5, 157, 158, 185, 195, 197, 370, 407

Milner, Joseph, 45

Milnes, Richard Monckton, Lord Houghton, 378, 427

Milton, John, 49

Molière, Francois, 189

Montalembert, Charles René Forbes de, 341, 342

Moore, Mrs (dame school) 25–6

Moore, Thomas, 90

More, Hannah, 41, 46, 50, 108

Morley, John, 376–7

Mott, Lucretia, 178–9

Mudie, Charles Edward, 287–8, 291, 340, 410, 424

Müller, Dr, 330, 331

Munich, stay in, 274–6

Munshi, the, 3

Myers, F. W. H., 400

Napier, Macvey, 195

Necessitarianism, 65, 72, 138

Newdegate, Charles, 43, 300, 302

Newdegate, Maria, 42, 43, 419

Newdegate/Newdigate name change, 14

Newdigate family, 1, 16, 19–20, 21, 22, 29, 31, 278, 374, 484

Newdigate, Francis Parker, 10, 14, 20, 42–3

Newdigate, Francis Parker, Colonel, 14, 20, 21,

Newdigate, Mrs, 15–16

Newdigate, Sir Roger, 14, 259

model for Sir Christopher Cheverel [
Scenes
], 302

Newman, Francis William, 147, 155, 158, 159

Newman, John Henry, 364

Nichol, John Pringle, 64

Nightingale, Florence, 49, 64

Noel, Edward, 84–5, 121, 211

Noel, Robert, 211

Norton, Charles, 397, 416, 460

Norton, Grace, 388

Norton, Mrs Charles, 397

Nuneaton, 1, 6, 11, 21, 28, 61, 62, 68, 157, 260, 292, 393, 371

model for Milby [
Scenes
], 11, 31, 260

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

Oliphant, Margaret, 290–91, 378

Owen, Richard, 159, 242

Owen, Robert, 83, 86

Paget, Sir James, 388, 413, 414, 416, 457, 465, 469, 473

Parker-Newdigate family,
see
Newdigate family, individuals

Parkes, Bessie Rayner,
see
Belloc, Bessie Rayner

Parkes, Joseph, 97, 99, 160, 163

Pascal, Honoré de, 33

Pattison, Emilia (née Strong), 399, 402, 405, 421, 424–5, 431, 435, 441

model for Dorothea Brooke, 405

Pattison, Mark, 399, 405, 424–5

model for Edward Casaubon [
Middlemarch
], 405

Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich, 460

Pears, Elizabeth (née Bray), 55, 63, 64, 67, 70, 72, 74, 76, 428

Pearson, Ann,
see
Garner, Ann

Pearson, Christiana,
see
Evans, Christiana

Pearson, Elizabeth,
see
Johnson, Elizabeth

Pearson, Isaac [GE’s grandfather], 16

Pearson, Mary,
see
Evarard, Mary

Pearson sisters [GE’s aunts], 16, 22, 33, 40, 280

model for Dodson aunts [
The Mill on the Floss
], 16, 317

Peirce, Harriet, 422

‘Peterloo’ incident, 21

Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), 341

Pigott, Edward, 235, 357, 378, 388

Plato, 195, 416

Poe, Edgar Allan, 311

Ponsonby, Mrs Henry Frederick, 394–5, 406, 434

Positivism, 178, 208, 314, 315, 366, 370, 379, 433, 474

Pownall, Elizabeth, 188

Poynton, Harriet,
see
Evans, Harriet

Priestley, Joseph, 65

Quinet, Edgar, 117

Quirk, James, 368

Rauch, Christian, 223

Rawlins, Sarah,
see
Evans, Sarah

Regent’s Park, London, 10, 35, 341–2, 357

Reynolds, Dr, 415

Richmond, 5, 11, 231, 233, 239–42, 249, 258, 266, 276, 381

Riehl, Wilhelm Heinrich von, 244–6

Rive, Arthur de la, 133

Robertson, Mr, 331

Robinson, Henry Crabb, 159

Rosehill, 81–141, 148, 151, 156, 168, 172, 178, 180, 188, 203, 209, 211–14, 232, 241, 304, 306, 308, 368

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 104, 125

Rubens, Peter Paul, 275, 278

Rubinstein, Anton, 220

model for Herr Klesmer [
Daniel Deronda
], 453

Ruskin, John, 245, 266

Sablé, Madame de, 224, 226, 251

Sadler, Dr Thomas, 458, 482

St Germain, Marquis de, 123

St Germain, Marquise de, 124

Sand, George, 104, 190, 197

Savonarola, Girolamo, 78, 264, 336, 342, 344, 345, 361

Sayn-Wittgenstein, Carolyne, Princess, 220

Schelling, Friedrich, 197

Schiff, Professor, 414

Schiller, J. C. Friedrich von, 53

Scholl, Gustav, 219, 221

Schopenhauer, Artur, 157

Schumann, Clara, 220

Scott, Sir Walter, 9, 38, 45, 51, 117, 120, 284, 308, 336, 341, 401, 411, 418

Scott, William Bell, 193, 194, 378–9, 460

Sedgwick, Sara, 388

Senior, Jane, 431, 432–3

Shakespeare, William, 1, 49, 53, 227, 340, 482, 485

Shelley, Mary, 311

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 53, 157, 192–4, 218

Sibree, John, 63, 75, 107–10, 122, 125, 240, 369

Sibree, John, Sr, 63, 75, 109, 428

Sibree, Mary,
see
Cash, Mary

Sibree family, 70, 74

Sidgwick, Henry, 462, 482

Siebold, Frau von, 275

Siebold, Karl von, 274

Simcox, Edith, 80, 104, 228, 264, 423, 434–5, 464–5, 476, 478, 481, 484

Simpson, George, 288, 297, 331, 345, 411, 446, 463

Smith, Albert, 258

Smith, Annie Leigh (nannie), 404

Smith, Barbara Leigh,
see
Bodichon, Barbara

Smith, Benjamin Leigh, 162

Smith, Elisabeth Leigh, 000, 000

Smith, George, 299, 301, 346–9, 354, 367, 375, 376, 411

Smith, John Pye, 64

Smith, Thomas Southwood, 386

Smith, W. H., 410, 424

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