ABSTRACT
A YOUNG man moving in Grove’s orbit in the middle and late 1860s might have met such luminaries as Browning, Tennyson, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Edward Lear, T. H. Huxley, the architect Sir Gilbert Scott, the millionaire philanthropist Baroness Burdett-Coutts, and the liberal theologian Dean Stanley of Westminster. 1 If he did not meet them, he could hardly have avoided hearing their work and personalities discussed from intimate acquaintance. Some were friends of Grove, some were contributors to Macmillan’s Magazine under his editorship, and some were both.
