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- He was married and not able to get a divorce for legal reasons.
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Marian was hesitant; she was twenty years his senior, but finally she accepted him in April 1880. They found a new home at 4 Cheyne Walk overlooking the Thames. Without telling anyone except the Cross family and Charles Lewes they married quietly on 6th May 1880 at St George's, Hanover Square.
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Sep 4, 2023 · Yet George Eliot wasn’t legally married to George Lewes, who was separated from, but could not divorce, his wife, Agnes Jervis. George Eliot wasn’t always George Eliot, either: she was Marian...
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- Clare Carlisle
Oct 19, 2023 · Eliot described her relationship with Lewes as a “double life,” and by “double” she meant not “duplicitous” or “divided” but “shared.” She felt that she drew strength from living in relationship with him, and their relationship in turn informed her work.
Aug 25, 2023 · Clare Carlisle’s book about the great Victorian novelist and her long relationship with George Henry Lewes suggests their non-marriage marriage was that impossibility, a perfect partnership.
Aug 4, 2023 · Lewes was estranged but not divorced from his first (and only official) wife when he and Eliot fled to Germany — and thereby announced their de facto elopement — in 1854.
He was married and not able to get a divorce for legal reasons. In 1854 they took the difficult decision to live together. In July they travelled to Germany and announced their new living arrangements in letters and telegrams to their friends.
