People

Black and white photograph of a man. The cheeks have been tinted pink. He has a high white collar, white shirt, black necktie and black jacket. The photograph is in an oval frame with a gold mount. It is in a red case.

Charles Bray
Watercolour painting of Charles Christian Hennell. Shows a man. He is wearing glasses, a high collar, shirt, waistcoat and jacket. On the right hand side is a plant or tree.

Charles Christian Hennell
A black and white photograph of Rufa Hennell. It shows a woman whose hair is plaited around the top. There is a light veil around the back of her head. She is wearing a white collar and dark cloak or shawl fastened with a broach. The photograph as a gold border and frame.

Rufa Hennell
Black and white photograph of an old school room with tables and books underneath. The chalk board at the front has the words George Eliot's School room written on it. The title the old school room, the elms, Nuneaton is written on the right hand side of the green/brown mount.

Miss Lewis

George Eliot Fellowship
Colour illustration showing a large house with a number of windows and smoking chimneys. The walls are covered in ivy. In the foreground is a garden and the house is framed by trees. A figure can be seen in the foreground.

Patty Townsend
Two handwritten pages.

Edith Simcox
Black and white portrait of a man. He has white hair and a beard. He is wearing a dark suit with a small flower in the capel. The jacket is fastened at the top button. Subject is wearing a necktie and a white collar shirt.

Isaac Evans
Watercolour painting of a women. She has brown hair which is parted in the centre and tied up. She has a white collar and bow tied at the neck. In the left hand corner are the words S.S Hennell by herself.

Sara Hennell
This is a miniature portrait painting inside a case, showing a man wearing a black coat and white cravat, seated with top portion of a red leather chair.

Robert Evans
Pages from an open book. The left hand side shows a portrait of George Eliot. The right hand side page is obscured by an inner cover. It reads George Eliot's Life as related in her letters and journals. Arranged and edited by her husband J.W Cross in three volumes.

John Cross
Painting of a seated woman. Her light coloured hair is wavy and gathered up at the jaw line. She has blue eyes. She is wearing a white blouse with collar and a black jacket. The wall behind is green.

Francois D’Albert-Durade
Painting of a woman with side ringlets dressed in white. In gilt brass (gilt now missing) frame.

Cara Bray
Wood with the words Elma Stuart fecit for George Eliot 1874 carved into it.

Elma Stuart
Black and white illustration of the head and shoulders of a man. He has wavy hair, a moustache and beard. He is wearing a shirt, waistcoat, jacket and bowtie.

George Henry Lewes