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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 18: Oldtown folks, 1869. (search)
cob. Mrs. Stowe had misgivings as to the reception which Oldtown folks would meet in England, owing to its distinctively New England character. Shortly after the publication of the book she received the following words of encouragement from Mrs. Lewes (George Eliot), July 11, 1869:-- I have received and read Oldtown folks. I think that few of your readers can have felt more interest than I have felt in that picture of an elder generation; for my interest in it has a double root,--one ierimental acquaintance with some shades of Calvinistic orthodoxy. I think your way of presenting the religious convictions which are not your own, except by the way of indirect fellowship, is a triumph of insight and true tolerance. . . . Both Mr. Lewes and I are deeply interested in the indications which the professor gives of his peculiar psychological experience, and we should feel it a great privilege to learn much more of it from his lips. It is a rare thing to have such an opportunity o
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 19: the Byron controversy, 1869-1870. (search)
ours, O. W. Holmes. While undergoing the most unsparing and pitiless criticism and brutal insult, Mrs. Stowe received the following sympathetic words from Mrs. Lewes (George Eliot):-- The Priory, 21 North Bank, December 10, 1869. My dear friend,--. . . In the midst of your trouble I was often thinking of you, for I fearehe hours of needful rest from writing become more and more precious as the years go on, but some brief news of you and yours will be especially welcome just now. Mr. Lewes unites with me in high regards to your husband and yourself, but in addition to that I have the sister woman's privilege of saying that I am always Your affecriting become more and more precious as the years go on, but some brief news of you and yours will be especially welcome just now. Mr. Lewes unites with me in high regards to your husband and yourself, but in addition to that I have the sister woman's privilege of saying that I am always Your affectionate friend, M. H. Lewes.
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 20: George Eliot. (search)
iot's first impressions of Mrs. Stowe. Mrs. Stowe's letter to Mrs. Follen. George Eliot's letter to Mrs. Stowe. Mrs. Stowe's reply. life in Florida. Robert Dale Owen and modern spiritualism. George Eliot's letter on the phenomena of spiritualism. Mrs. Stowe's description of scenery in Florida. Mrs. Stowe concerning Middlemarch. George Eliot to Mrs. Stowe during Rev. H. W. Beecher's trial. Mrs. Stowe concerning her life experience with her brother, H. W. Beecher, and his trial. Mrs. Lewes' last letter to Mrs. Stowe. diverse mental characteristics of these two women. Mrs. Stowe's final estimate of modern spiritualism. It is with a feeling of relief that we turn from one of the most disagreeable experiences of Mrs. Stowe's life to one of the most delightful, namely, the warm friendship of one of the most eminent women of this age, George Eliot. There seems to have been some deep affinity of feeling that drew them closely together in spite of diversity of intellectual