Bibliographical information about the influence of Lessing upon George Eliot

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 29 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.

See "Belles Lettres," The Westminster Review, 66 (October 1856), 566; G. H. Lewes, "Lessing," The Edinburgh Review, 82 (October 1845), 451-70; and Joseph Wiesenfarth, George Eliot's Mythmaking (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 1977), p. 46.

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