George Meredith

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 .

In The Bookman, C. E. Lawrence welcomed this novel as an individual effort of work which proves that however much she may have studied in the past . . . Miss Meynell has a...

AM published The Second Person Singular, and Other Essays, a collection of twenty pieces about Italy, George Meredith , Leigh Hunt , Thomas Lovell Beddoes , and Coventry Patmore .

AM was a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poet, as well as the author of criticism, journalism, essays, art reviews, introductions, and translations. Her output amounted to ten essay collections and six poetry volumes during...

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), but it lasted until Meredith's death, on 18 May 1909...

In The NationRolfe Humphries responded with comment on the shape of her career, regretting that she had become a legend before becoming a success, that her public now included collectors as well as readers...

The title-page quotes from Shakespeare (What's past is Prologue) and Cicero (That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...

CN was depicted as Berengaria Montford by Disraeli in Endymion (written in the 1830s but unpublished until 1880). George Meredith said he based the heroine of Diana of the Crossways, 1885, partly on her...

ATR lived with the Stephens after their marriage, and while there became a friend of such literary figures as George Meredith , Henry James (who described her after an early encounter as exquisitely irrational)...

Her subjects included German and French, philosophy and literature, particularly such writers as Kant , Heine , Pascal , Racine , and Voltaire . Among English authors, she admired George Meredith (Modern Love))...

Here she became a friend of novelist and neighbour George Meredith , who introduced her to a wider social circle, including W.T. Stead , the scandalous journalist and editor of the Pall Mall Gazette...

Elegies was praised by Robert Browning , George Meredith , and William Gladstone .

In addition to her poetry, AS published at least three significant pieces of literary criticism: essays on the contemporary, active George Meredith and on Marie de Sévigné for the British Quarterly Review in 1879 and...

The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter appeared with an introduction by George Meredith .

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...