Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Stephen, Leslie

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. English Men of Letters, ed. John Morley

1878

George Henry Lewes to Alexander Macmillan, 26 August 1878. “I feel sure you will be glad to know the pleasure Mrs. Lewes has received from the first three instalments of your series of English classics. She has read them aloud to me, and although Scott is to her an almost sacred name, she was so delighted with Hutton's largeness of feeling and sympathetic insight that, as she told a lady yesterday, "she was in a glow all the time she read it." Stephen's Johnson also gave her great pleasure. The Gibbon was of course a less attractive subject, but it is on the whole admirably done.” GEL 7: 65 

Stephen, Leslie, Samuel Johnson, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57641

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