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1846 "Life of Jesus" published by subscription.

1847 To London with the Brays; to Isle of Wight with father.

1848 To St. Leonards with father; reading "Jane Eyre"; met Emerson.

1849 Father died; began to translate the "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus" of Spinoza; wrote short notice for Coventry Herald of Froude's "Nemesis of Faith"; went to Geneva for 9 months.

1850 (aged 31) Portrait painted at Geneva by M. d'Albert Durade.
Returned to Rosehill for 16 months.

1851 Reviewed Mackay's "Progress of the Intellect" for the Westminster Review.
Boarded with the Chapmans at 142 Strand, and acted as assistant editor of the Westminster Review. Met in that capacity Herbert Spencer, Carlyle, Robert Browning, James and Harriet Martineau, Mazzini, Greg, J. S. Mill, Francis W. Newman, G. H. Lewes, and other leaders of thought.

1852 Met Madame Bodichon (née Barbara Smith) and Florence Nightingale.

1853 Lodged at 21 Cambridge Street, Hyde Park Square.

"The Idea of a Future Life," by Marian

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