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A Short Biography of George Henry Lewes

Author Name:

George Henry Lewes

Born As:

George Henry Lewes

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Born:

18 Apr 1817

Died:

28 Nov 1878




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Philosopher, literary and theatre critic                          
Selected Works:

The Biographical History of Philosophy - 1846
The Spanish Drama - 1846
Ranthorpe - 1847	
Rose, Blanche and Violet - 1848
Robespierre - 1849
Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences - 1853
Life of Goethe - 1855
Seaside Studies - 1858
Physiology of Common Life - 1859Studies in Animal Life - 1862
Aristotle, A Chapter from the History of Science - 1864
Actors and Acting - 1875

The Problems of Life and Mind:
First Series: The Foundations of a Creed vol I - 1875
The Foundations of a Creed vol II - 1875
Second Series: The Physical Basis of Mind - 1877
Third Series: Mind as a Function of Organism - 1879

New Quarterly - London, October, 1879
J. W. Cross, George Eliot's Life as Related in her Letters and Journals - three volumes - 1885.                          
Mother Elizabeth Ashweek
Father John Lee Lewes                          
                          
Part of the mid-Victorian era of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism, positivism, and religious scepticism. 


The extramarital partner of the novelist Mary Ann Evans, better known by her pen name of George Eliot, with whom he lived from 1854 until his death in 1878.