Genealogy Chat

a literary question for you!

1871 George H Lewes abt 1818 London, Head Marian E Lewes abt 1821 Arbury, Warwickshire, Wife Amelia Lee abt 1829 Focy, Cornwall, Servant Grace Lee abt 1817 Stonehouse, Devon,Servant

And who is this [mistranscribed as Lewis] Kensington London Agnes Lewes abt 1823 London City, Middlesex, Wife Edmund A Lewes abt 1851 Kensington, Middlesex, Son Ethie J Lewes abt 1854 Kensington, Middlesex, Daughter Mildred J Lewes abt 1858 Kensington, Middlesex, Daughter John H L Glover abt 1841 Monmouth, Wales Visitor Mary E Glover abt 1845 Manchester, Lancashire, Visitor Eliza Allison abt 1852 Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England Servant

A namesake of yours, perchance?!!

Unmarried Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot) living as Mrs Lewes? Heather

...... and the first missus (Agnes) still alive and well! Gwynne

Heather and Gwynne Well done! I was prompted to look for them after seeing a programme about the Victorians on the History Channel. It compared the lives of Queen Victoria, Caroline Norton and George Eliot (Mary Ann or Marian Evans). Queen Vic started off as ultra respectable and the embodiment of family virtues with Albert and their umpteen children. Caroline Norton, trapped in a marriage to a cruel man, was notorious for being considered a 'fallen woman' and George Eliot, by choosing to live openly with a man married to someone else, was unacceptable in polite society. But after Albert died, Victoria was censured for her relationship with her servant John Brown. Conversely, after the death of Caroline's husband and George Lewes, both Caroline and Mary Ann achieved respectability by marrying other men, though they both died shortly after their weddings. nell

Would like to say, Nell, you are a mine of information, Love, Pam.