![]() ![]() ![]() In 1854 he and Marian decided to live together, and did so until Lewes's death in 1878. Lewes was separated from his wife, but with no possibility of divorce. Through them she was commissioned to translate Strauss's Life of Jesus and met the radical publisher John Chapman, who, when he purchased the Westminster Review in 1851, made her his managing editor.Having lost her Christian faith and thereby alienated her family, she moved to London and met Herbert Spencer (whom she nearly married, only he found her too 'morbidly intellectual') and the versatile man-of-letters George Henry Lewes. In 1841 she moved to Coventry, and met Charles and Caroline Bray, local progressive intellectuals. In 1836 her mother died and Marian became her father's housekeeper, educating herself in her spare time. She attended schools in Nuneaton and Coventry, coming under the influence of evangelical teachers and clergymen. Mary Ann (Marian) Evans was born in 1819 in Warwickshire. ![]()
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