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. |
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 | |
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... |
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 | 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 | |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Steele | Through her youngest sister AS
met many key figures of the day, including Irish Home-Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell
(Katherine O'Shea's long-term lover and eventual husband), and Justin McCarthy
, novelist and Irish Home-Rule MP... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Grand | In 1896 SG
met George Meredith
(who had rejected her manuscript of The Heavenly Twins some years earlier) and Alice Meynell
in the Surrey Hills, at Burford Bridge Hotel,Box Hill, near Dorking. Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983. 89-90 |
Friends, Associates | Emily Lawless | Lawless made a number of other friends, acquaintances, and admirers through her writing, including Margaret Oliphant
, an early friend and critic, Rhoda Broughton
, George Meredith
, Aubrey de Vere
, Mary Augusta Ward |
Friends, Associates | Emma Caroline Wood | Visitors to Rivenhall included Edwin Landseer
, Anthony Trollope
and George Meredith
. Frequent visits of guests, coupled with the fact that the entire family was expected to participate actively in social life, gave the... |
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.