Eliot's visits to studios of contemporary artists

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 10 to Chapter 2 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

The visit to Leighton's studio took place in 1864 (Letters, IV, 143); to Hunt's, in 1868 (Cross, 111, 32); to Watts's, in 1870 (Haight, p. 422); to Rossetti's, in 1870 (Letters, V, 78-79; to Burne-Jones's, in 1873 (Letters, V, 391); and to Mrs. Allingham's, in 1877 (Letters, Vl, 424).

Last modified 20 September 2000