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Journalists at George Eliot's Priory: Busy Editors, Writing Women, and the Founding of Mind
- Victorian Periodicals Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 46, Number 4, Winter 2013
- pp. 539-553
- 10.1353/vpr.2013.0051
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The unpublished journals of George Henry Lewes challenge the conventional view that gatherings at the Priory were either dull or scandalous. Not only did the Leweses welcome a large number of women guests, provide entertainment by talented singers, and entertain many important Victorians, but they also provided a convenient networking space for editors, authors, and reviewers. Editors Leslie Stephen and James Thomas Knowles used the Priory gatherings to advance their projects, while Mathilda Betham-Edwards demonstrated how a woman author could add to her journalistic credits through contacts formed at the Priory. Finally, a number of regular visitors, including founding editor George Croom Robertson, contributed to the launch of the periodical Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy.