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Thornton Leigh Hunt
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Thornton Leigh Hunt

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  • Lewes, detail of a pencil drawing by Anne Gliddon, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
    George Henry Lewes

    …1850 Lewes and his friend Thornton Leigh Hunt founded a radical weekly called The Leader, for which he wrote the literary and theatrical features. His Comte’s Philosophy of the Sciences (1853) originally appeared as a series of articles in The Leader.

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    …1850 Lewes and his friend Thornton Leigh Hunt founded a radical weekly called The Leader, for which he wrote the literary and theatrical features. His Comte’s Philosophy of the Sciences (1853) originally appeared as a series of articles in The Leader.

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