George Henry Lewes, assured of a place in literary history for his influence on the life and work of novelist George Eliot, left his own mark on mid-Victorian literature in several areas: as a versati...
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A man of remarkable intellectual versatility, George Henry Lewes wrote biographies of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Maximilien Robespierre, a multivolume biographical history of a wide range of philo...
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In the following essay, Kaminsky suggests that Lewes's worth as a literary critic is far greater than his diminishing reputation in the years following his death would indicate.
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George Henry Lewes
Critical Essay by Alice R. Kaminsky
