• Impressions of Theophrastus Such is a work of fiction by George Eliot (Marian Evans), first published in 1879. It was Eliot's last published writing and...
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    Aristotle who took to Theophrastus in his writings. When Aristotle fled Athens, Theophrastus took over as head of the Lyceum. Theophrastus presided over the...
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    George Eliot (category Alumni of the University of London)
    autobiographical in Looking Backwards, part of her final published work Impressions of Theophrastus Such. By the time of Daniel Deronda, Eliot's sales were falling...
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    Blackwood (publishing house) (category Book publishing companies of Scotland)
    Eliot Archive Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879), George Eliot Impressions of Theophrastus Such free PDF of Blackwood's 1878 Cabinet Edition (the critical...
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    Impressions of Theophrastus Such, a series of essays that she wrote in the character of a fictional scholar named Theophrastus, the essay "Shadows of...
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  • Butler, including George Eliot in a chapter of her final published work Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879). The creature in Mary Shelley's 1818 Frankenstein...
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    they met, such as Lewes working for Swynfen Jervis as a secretary or tutor for his sons. They may have met through Thornton Hunt's circle of friends. Jervis...
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    information such as the fruiting patterns of trees and the habits of large mammals. These localised naming systems are folk taxonomies. Theophrastus recorded...
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    William Hurrell Mallock (category Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford)
    Happiness," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. VI, July/December, 1879. "Impressions of Theophrastus Such, by George Elliott," The Edinburgh Review, Vol. CL, October...
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    writings went to Theophrastus (Aristotle's successor as head of the Lycaeum and the Peripatetic school). After the death of Theophrastus, the peripatetic...
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