biography
| name: |
Lewes, George Henry
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pronunciation:
[loois]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1817–78)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in London, UK. He left school at an early age to enter first a notary's office, then the house of a Russian merchant. In London, after a stay in Germany, he started writing for the Penny Encyclopaedia and other journals, edited the Leader (1851–4) and founded and edited the Fortnightly (1865–6). He was married, with a family, when he began a lifelong affair with George Eliot in 1854. His works, as well as a tragedy and two novels (1841–8), include The Spanish Drama (1846), Life and Works of Goethe (1855), and Problems of Life and Mind (1874–9). |
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