Lynch, Hannah. Through Troubled Waters. Ward, Lock, and Co., 1885, p. viii, 460 pp.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | Lucie Duff Gordon | Caroline Norton
, one of LDG
's closest friends, wrote following her death: A great reader, a great thinker, very original in her conclusions, very eager in impressing her opinions, her mind was not like... |
Dedications | Hannah Lynch | HL
's first novel, Through Troubled Waters, (dedicated to George Meredithas a slight token of a very sincere admiration), Murphy, James H. Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age. Oxford University Press, 2011. 233 and n71 Athenæum. J. Lection. 3004 (1885): 660 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Anna Steele | AS
does not seem to have had any formal education. If her upbringing was like that of her younger sister Katherine, she never attended school, and it is unclear whether she or her sisters had... |
Education | Viola Meynell | After leaving school at sixteen, VM
read widely on her own, especially English authors: George Eliot
, Dickens
, George Meredith
, Arnold Bennett
, John Galsworthy
, and Thomas Hardy
. MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002. 61, 65 |
Education | Diana Athill | DA
was taught at home by governesses (seven successively before she was sent to school), who followed a correspondence course designed for home schooling which was known as Parents Educational National Union
. A French... |
Education | Dora Russell | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Webb | MW
's father and mentor was George Edward Meredith
, head of a boys' preparatory school and a gentleman farmer. Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth, 1978. 21 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | He was immensely influential. As editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1871 to 1882, he published Henry James
, Thomas Hardy
, Matthew Arnold
, Robert Browning
, and George Meredith
, among others. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, 1983, pp. 32-56. 34 |
Fictionalization | Lucie Duff Gordon | LDG
was an inspiration to several of her literary peers. George Meredith
probably had her in mind in drawing his character Lady Dunstane in Diana of the Crossways. (His Lady Dunstane is a close... |
Fictionalization | Alice Meynell | To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM
symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf
's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore
and Francis Thompson |
Fictionalization | Caroline Norton | |
Friends, Associates | John Oliver Hobbes | She made many friends and acquaintances both as a figure in society and as an author. These included literary people such as George Meredith
, Thomas Hardy
, Punch editor Owen Seaman
, William Archer |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | They made a friend of George Meredith
some time before 1890 and visited him often. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933. 66 |
Friends, Associates | Dora Sigerson | After her marriage, DS
became acquainted with a number of notable literary figures, including George Meredith
(who wrote the introduction to The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter, 1907), Thomas Hardy
(who wrote the... |
Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | AM
's friendship with George Meredith
did not begin until very late in Patmore's life (it was already arousing bitter jealousy in early 1896), Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946. 12 |
Timeline
7 July 1849
George Meredith
's first published work, the poemChillianwallah, appeared in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.
By 23 August 1851
George Meredith
published Poems, his first collection.
By 14 April 1855
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
published his first book of poetry, Clytemnestra, The Earl's Return, The Artist, and Other Poems, as Owen Meredith.
By December 1855
George Meredith
published his first work of fiction, The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment.
By 9 July 1859
George Meredith
published his first major novel, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel.
By 31 May 1862
George Meredith
published Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads.
By 30 April 1864
George Meredith
published Emilia in England, a novel that he retitled Sandra Belloni in its second edition, February 1886.
By 14 October 1865
George Meredith
published the three-volume novelRhoda Fleming.
1876
George Meredith
published his novelBeauchamp's Career, in three volumes.
1878
William Swan Sonnenschein
and J. Archibald Allen
formed a partnership in the publishing firm of Swan Sonnenschein and Allen
, at 15 Paternoster Square, London.
June 1879-January 1880
George Meredith
's novelThe Egoist was serialised in the Glasgow Weekly Herald.
By 28 July 1883
George Meredith
published Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth.
By 14 March 1885
1895
Thomas Bird Mosher
of Portland, Maine, began publishing The Bibelot. A Reprint of Poetry & Prose for Book Lovers, a monthly series later collected as an annual volume, of exquisitely produced editions in tiny press-runs.
Texts
Meredith, George, and Dora Sigerson. “Introduction”. The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter, Hodder and Stoughton, 1907, p. v - viii.
Meredith, George, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Introduction”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, 1983, p. xix - xxiv.
Duff Gordon, Lucie, Janet Ross, Sarah Searight, and George Meredith. Letters from Egypt. Virago, 1983.
Meredith, George. Poems. Times Book Club, 1912.
Sigerson, Dora, and George Meredith. The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter. Hodder and Stoughton, 1907.