Nos 5 and 6 Parkshot   BG

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Richmond and Sheen – Parkshot



1855 October 3 - George Eliot and George Henry Lewes move into lodgings at 8 Parkshot in Richmond, with Miss Croft as their landlady (RUTLS )

1857 October 22 - In the cramped sitting room that she shares as a study with Lewes, George Eliot begins writing her first novel, Adam Bede (Haight, 249)

1859 February 5 - George Eliot and George Henry Lewes move from Parkshot to Holly Lodge in Wandsworth (Haight, 272)



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RW  The northernmost house on the west side of Parkshot today is no. 6. The neighbouring house lived in by George Eliot was replaced by a new building in 1905. This in turn was replaced in 1976 by the present Richmond Magistsrates’ Court. (Richmond-upon-Thames local history)

SW  Because of the attitudes of the time, it was essential that landladies should believe that George Eliot (real name Marianne Evans) and George Henry Lewes were married. Otherwise they would certainly be asked to leave (Lewes was married, and it was virtually impossible in those days to get a divorce). George Eliot was constantly having to warn her friends to address her only as Mrs Lewes, as in this pained note of 22 March 1856 to Bessie Parkes: "Your address to me as Miss Evans was unfortunate, as I am not known under that name here. We find it indispensable to our comfort that I should bear Mr. Lewes's name while we occupy lodgings, and we are now with so excellent a woman that any cause of removal would be a misfortune. If you have occasion to write to me again, please to bear this in mind" (Haight, 192)