Download or read book The Complicity of Friends written by Martin N. Raitiere and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complicity of Friends offers an entirely original perspective within which to appreciate four eminent Victorians: Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson. For the first time, I clarify the nature of Spencer's illness and demonstrate its repercussions in the lives and work of his three gifted friends.