Pigott, Edward Frederik Smyth (1824-1895)

Edward Frederick Smyth Pigott was a journalist and theater critic and longtime friend of George Henry Lewes. In 1851, Pigott bought the Leader, which Lewes and Thornton Leigh Hunt had founded, and became one of its editors. Until Lewes's death in 1878, the two remained friends. Pigott visited Sunday afternoons at the Priory and met George Eliot there.

George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org

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