Call, Elizabeth Rebecca [nee Brabant]

Elizabeth Rebecca 'Rufa' Hennell Call [née Brabant] was one of George Eliot's earliest and most enduring friends, though little of their correspondence has survived. Eliot did not like her initially, but admitted to Sara Hennell, Rufa's sister-in-law, eventually that her first impression of Rufa Brabant was not fair and that Rufa's 'tender seriousness' and other qualities made her 'almost worthy of Mr. Hennell.' Eliot was a bridesmaid in Rufa's wedding to Charles Hennell. After Hennell's death, Rufa married Mark Call in 1857.

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