George Eliot (78 page)

fear of abandonment, 36, 60, 227

hypersensitivity, 25, 62, 234, 263, 350, 359

longing for praise, acclaim and love, 36, 290

maternal feelings, 405

need for attachment, 25, 129, 166, 202, 471

need for intimacy, 57, 129

need for mother love, 3, 22–6, 103, 124, 130, 202, 275

need for reassurance, 25, 128

period of serenity, 360

sexual freedom, 3, 4

interests:

music, 51–2, 59

phrenology, 87, 178, 232, 476

politics, 366–7

religious beliefs, 3, 13, 32, 34, 38, 39, 42–6, 50, 51, 52, 53–82, 363–6, 393–4

science, 49, 54, 318

life:

birth, 1, 17

care of father, 37–8, 39–40, 58–9, 117–20

childhood, 1–28

childlessness, 3, 339–40

Cross, John, marriage to, 3, 4, 18, 35, 109, 200, 229, 235, 469–83

education, 25–6, 28–37, 43, 44

estrangement from family, 13, 27, 38–9, 59, 68–76, 86, 90, 103, 115, 117, 127–30, 180–81, 202, 228, 241–2, 261, 268–71, 301, 362, 428–9, 430

female acolytes, 402–7, 426, 435–6

financial success, 312, 313, 325

first marriage proposal, 105, 114

health, 50, 52, 353–6, 398, 436, 437, 455

Lewes, George, ‘marriage’ to,
see
Lewes, George Henry

parallel with Queen Victoria, 3–4

practice of birth control, 246

social life, 356–8, 378–81, 399–401, 426–8
see also
Eliot, George, relationships

physical appearance, 3, 4, 29, 34–6, 44, 61, 110–11, 150, 168–9, 185, 264, 310, 320, 358, 360–61, 397, 431, 473, 479

pseudonym, 13, 261–7, 273, 291–7, 299–301, 305–6, 307–8, 310–13, 368

relationships:

Bodichon, Barbara, 162, 209

Brabant, Dr Robert, 90–93, 95–7, 100, 103, 105, 106, 107, 109, 122, 136, 142, 143, 144, 158, 160, 165, 201, 211, 228, 424, 471

Bray, Charles, 79, 85, 86, 91, 110, 201

Chapman, John, 85, 141, 144–52, 163, 201

Evans, Isaac [brother], 23–5, 36, 38–9, 72–3, 202, 261, 271, 320

Hennell, Sara, 76, 79, 101–3, 202

Lewes children, 328–35, 337, 339, 386, 432

Lewis, Maria, 29, 32, 33, 37, 54–60, 75, 78–80, 85, 99, 101, 103, 108, 125, 128, 202, 214, 428

Spencer, Herbert, 163–70, 172–6, 201

work:

Adam Bede
, 4, 5, 8, 41, 81, 139, 188, 273–80, 315, 319, 322, 324, 327, 334, 337, 342, 345, 348, 350, 360, 375, 385, 408, 445, 487;

background for, 9, 11–12, 13, 15, 17, 21, 32, 41, 133, 277–80;

plot, 281–4;

publishing of, 277, 287–90;

success of, 286–90;

writing of, 273–6

‘Affectation and Conceit’, 35

‘Agatha’, 391

‘Armgart’, 39, 455

articles for
Coventry Herald
, 116

‘As o’er the fields’ 51

biological basis of, 242, 246, 318

‘Brother Jacob’, 23, 347, 349

‘Brother and Sister’ sonnets, 23–4, 26, 272, 391, 429, 443

‘The College Breakfast-Party’, 400–401

Daniel Deronda
, 8, 26, 52, 333, 427, 437, 440–46, 448, 452–5;

background for, 8, 26, 219, 313, 379, 392, 440;

plot, 448–55;

publication of, 317;

writing of, 427, 438, 440–44

‘Edward Neville’, 51

Felix Holt, The Radical
, 9, 43, 50, 302, 347, 359, 363, 365, 371–7, 381–50, 408, 409, 412, 413, 451, 487;

background, 264;

plot, 371–5;

success, 376–7

Feuerbach’s
The Essence of Christianity
(translation), 6, 184, 192, 205, 208, 224, 225, 236, 255, 256, 261, 328, 339

‘How Lisa Loved the King’, 391

Impressions of Theophrastus Such
, 116, 458, 467–9, 486, 487

The Legend of Jubal, and Other Poems
, 391–2, 444

‘The Lifted Veil’, 276, 291, 311, 312, 487

Middlemarch
, 32, 344, 351, 385, 434, 440, 442, 445, 448, 452, 459, 468, 484;

background, 16, 32, 96, 113, 212, 304, 379, 407–9,; plot, 417–25;

writing of, 391, 392, 395

The Mill on the Floss
, 5, 13, 18, 21, 23, 24, 291, 347, 323–6, 332, 334, 336, 337, 340, 345–6, 360, 373, 375, 377, 385, 408, 459, 487;

background, 16, 18, 21, 23, 24, 113, 132, 180, 210, 224, 302, 316;

plot, 316–22;

publishing of, 229, 295–301;

success of, 323–5;

writing of, 311

novels, first thoughts of, 246

‘O May I Join the Choir Invisible’, 315, 366, 443, 482

‘On Being Called a Saint’, 34, 418

Romola
, 50, 234, 318, 331, 337, 347, 359, 363, 366, 370, 375–7, 380–81, 383–5, 394,
395, 442, 459, 487;

plot, 343–5;

writing of, 343–52

Scenes of Clerical Life
, 47, 251–84, 292, 293, 296, 298, 303–4, 307, 308, 319, 324, 346, 425

Self and Life, 23

Silas Marner
, 9, 11, 31, 328, 337–40, 342, 344, 346, 352, 385, 408, 487;

background, 337–8

Spanish Gypsy
, 50, 234, 351, 360, 367, 371, 381, 383–5, 391, 395, 422, 459, 487

Spinoza’s
Ethics
(translation), 192, 222, 226, 237, 238, 444

Strauss’s
The Life of Jesus
(translation), 6, 97–9

Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings
, 395

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 83, 107, 136

Engels, Friedrich, 106

Evans, Chrissey,
see
Clarke, Chrissey

Evans, Christiana (née Pearson) [GE’s mother], 16, 17, 21–3, 26, 29, 58, 130, 279–80,

death of, 37

model for Mrs Poyser [
Adam Bede
], 21, 279–80

Evans, Edith,
see
Griffiths, Edith

Evans, Elizabeth (nee Tomlinson) [GE’s aunt], 40, 41–2, 50, 277–8

model for Dinah Morris, 304

Evans, Fanny (Frances Lucy) [GE’s half-sister],
see
Houghton, Fanny

Evans, Fred [GE’s nephew], model for Fred Vincy [
Middlemarch
], 419

Evans, George [GE’s grandfather], 12

Evans, George [GE’s uncle], 12, 13

Evans, Harriet [GE’s half-sister], 16

Evans, Harriet (née Poynton) [GE’s father’s first wife], 15–16

Evans, Isaac P. [GE’s brother], 10,17, 18, 21, 37, 40, 41, 58, 59, 68, 69, 70, 72–3, 74, 92, 106, 114, 119, 182, 295, 300, 301–2, 316, 363, 419, 428, 463, 477, 482

childhood, 10, 22, 23, 25, 26, 202

GE’s attachment to, 23–5

GE’s estrangement from, 13, 27, 36, 38–9, 58–61, 70, 86, 90, 103, 105, 115, 117, 127, 134, 180, 202, 228, 241, 242, 261, 268–72, 362, 429, 430

model for Tom Tulliver [
The Mill on the Floss
], 180, 272, 320

religious beliefs of, 38–9

Evans, Jane [GE’s sister-in-law], 362, 363

Evans, Robert [GE’s father], 1, 10, 11–21, 27, 29, 31, 37, 43, 44, 58, 61, 62, 68–9, 77, 78, 180, 261, 272, 279, 288, 344, 371, 428

GE’s care of, 37–8, 39–40, 58–9, 117–21

GE’s estrangement from, 69–75, 92, 103

model for Adam Bede [
Adam Bede
], 278

model for Caleb Garth [
Middlemarch
], 419

Evans, Robert [GE’s half-brother], 15, 22, 119, 362

Evans, Robert [GE’s half-brother’s son], 362

Evans, Samuel [GE’s uncle], 12, 40, 80, 81

model for Seth Bede [
Adam Bede
], 278–9

Evans, Sarah (née Rawlins) [GE’s sister-in-law], 58–9, 68, 73, 114, 127, 134, 268, 477

Evans, Thomas [GE’s uncle], 12, 14–15

Evans, William [GE’s uncle], 12, 14, 81

Evarard, John [GE’s uncle], 16, 113

Evarard, Mary (nee Pearson) [GE’s aunt], 26, 38, 133

model for Aunt Glegg [
The Mill on the Floss
], 16

Faithful, Emily, 406

Faraday, Michael, 147

Faucit, Helen, 381

feminism, 8, 77, 160, 229, 284, 473–4, 486

feminist criticism of
The Mill
, 318

feminist reaction to GE, 355–6

Feuerbach, Ludwig, 6, 184, 192, 205–6, 224, 229, 236, 255, 256, 261, 328, 339

Fields, James, 391

Forbes, Edward, 155

Forster, John, 447

Fourier, Charles, 196

Fox, William Johnson, 91, 155

Franklin, Francis, 33

model for Rufus Lyon [
Felix Holt
], 374

Franklin, Mary, 32–3, 36, 37, 40, 47, 50, 52, 63, 70, 74

Franklin, Rebecca, 32–3, 36, 37, 40, 47, 50, 52, 63, 70, 74, 428

Frederick VIII, Prince, 415

Freud, Sigmund, 174, 406

Froude, James Anthony, 120–22, 155, 157, 159, 185, 191, 288, 289

Fuller, Margaret, 159, 190

Garner, Ann (née Pearson) [GE’s aunt], model for Aunt Deane, 16

Garner, George [GE’s uncle], 16

Gaskell, Elizabeth, 64, 104, 186, 209, 251, 263, 385, 461

Geneva, stay in, 35, 122–33

George III, 1

George IV (as Prince Regent), 1

Gibbon, Edward, 341, 381

Gladstone, William Ewart, 485

Godwin, William, 144, 194

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 53, 204, 217–23, 226–7, 235–7, 239, 240, 242, 243, 274, 281, 459–60, 465

Goethe, Ottilie von, 223

Goschen, George Joachim, 427–8

Gosse, Edmund, 431, 460

Gray, Mrs Charles (Hannah Steane), 84, 114

Great Exhibition, 152

Greg, William Rathbone, 155, 185

Grenfell, Charlotte, 121

Gresley, William, 54

Griff House, 17–18, 19, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 37, 58, 59, 60, 61–2, 428, 477

dairy, model for Mrs Poyser’s dairy [
Adam Bede
], 9, 280

Griffiths, Edith (née Evans) [GE’s niece], 18, 428

Gruppe, Otto Friedrich, 222

Gwyther, John, 252–3, 303

model for Amos Barton [
Scenes
], 252, 303

Haight, Gordon, 102, 174, 228, 446

Hamley, W. G., 258

Handel, George Frederic, 59, 108

Hardy, Thomas, 442, 484

Hare, William, 407

Harrison, Frederic, 365–6, 374, 377, 378, 384, 401, 421, 439, 441, 458, 474

Hartley, David, 65

Haydn, Franz Joseph, 59

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 108, 240

Heger, Constantin, 206

Heine, Heinrich, 227, 388

Helps, Alice, 431

Helps, Arthur, 211, 242, 258, 357, 368, 427

Hennell, Cara,
see
Bray, Cara

Hennell, Charles Christian, 64–8, 81,
90–92, 97, 101, 128, 129, 138, 169, 245

Hennell, Mary, 85

Hennell, Rufa,
see
Call, Rufa

Hennell, Sara, 23, 76, 85, 91, 95–105, 108, 110, 117, 129, 197, 240, 245, 246, 247, 352, 408, 413, 432

correspondence, 23, 76, 91, 99, 118, 136, 137, 188, 196, 226, 229, 271–4, 292, 370

death of, 484

estrangement from, 128, 129, 205, 209, 212–14, 232, 306–7, 368, 377

Feuerbach translation, 205

friendship with, 78, 86, 97–9, 102–6, 120, 128, 202, 301, 305–6, 404

relation to John Chapman, 135

Strauss translation, 97

Herder, Wilhelm von, 124

Herzl, Theodor, 453

Hickson, W. E., 149, 153

Hill, Gertrude,
see
Lewes, Gertrude

Hill, Octavia, 387, 433

Hodgson, William Ballantyne, 107

Holbeche, Vincent, 270, 478

Holly Lodge, Wandsworth, 298, 312, 313, 315

Home, Daniel, 364

Homer, 242

Hoppus, John, 45

Houghton, Fanny (Frances Lucy, née Evans) [GE’s half-sister], 15, 21, 22, 27, 29, 62, 68, 70, 105, 114, 115, 119, 122, 127, 130–31, 301, 368, 431, 463

GE’s estrangement from, 131–2, 241–2, 268–71, 302, 363, 428–9