Helps, Alice

Alice Helps was the eldest daughter of Sir Arthur Helps, who was a lifelong friend of Eliot's partner, G. H. Lewes. For the first five years of Eliot's 'marriage' to Lewes, he spent part of his holidays with the Helps family, but George Eliot was not invited. After Eliot became a famous novelist, many people who once shunned her warmed considerably. Alice Helps came to view George Eliot as a maternal figure and friend.

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GE to Alice Helps, London, 2 April 1873
GE to Alice Helps, London, 19 March 1874
GE to Alice Helps, London, 28 March 1874
GHL to Alice Helps, London, [8 March 1875]
GE to Alice Helps, London, 7 June 1875
GE to Alice Helps, London, 30 November 1875
GE to Alice Helps, Witley, 3 August 1880
GE to Alice Helps, London, 31 March 1874
GE to Alice Helps, London, [April? 1874]
GE to Alice Helps, London, 23 April 1874
GE to Alice Helps, London, 23 November 1874
GE to Alice Helps, London, 28 March 1880

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Alice Helps, Helps, Alice, Social Network Gallery, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed November 11, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/97229