Call, Elizabeth Rebecca [nee Brabant] (1811-1898)

Elizabeth Rebecca 'Rufa' Hennell Call [née Brabant] was one of George Eliot's earliest and most enduring friends, though little of their correspondence has survived. Eliot did not like her initially, but admitted to Sara Hennell, Rufa's sister-in-law, eventually that her first impression of Rufa Brabant was not fair and that Rufa's 'tender seriousness' and other qualities made her 'almost worthy of Mr. Hennell.' Eliot was a bridesmaid in Rufa's wedding to Charles Hennell. After Hennell's death, Rufa married Mark Call in 1857.

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Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray to Rufa [Mrs. Charles Christian] Hennell, Coventry , [28 July 1844]
Sara Sophia Hennell to Elizabeth Rebecca 'Rufa' [Mrs. Charles Christian] Hennell, [Coventry, August 1845]
Sara Sophia Hennell to Elizabeth Rebecca 'Rufa' [Mrs. Charles Christian] Hennell, [Coventry, January 1844]
GE to Mrs. Wathen Mark Wilks Call, Richmond, 4 September 1858
GE to Mrs. Wathen Mark Wilks Call, London, 5 June 1866
GHL to Mr. And Mrs. W. M. W. Call, London, 5 July 1862
GE to Mrs. Wathen Mark Wilks Call, London, [12? October 1868]

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Elizabeth Rebecca [nee Brabant] Call (1811-1898), Call, Elizabeth Rebecca [nee Brabant] (1811-1898), Social Network Gallery, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed November 11, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/97231