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, pp. 32-56.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Publishing | Ellen Wood | The novel had been twice offered to the publishing house of Chapman and Hall
, and was recommended by William Harrison Ainsworth
. After their reader (novelist George Meredith
) twice rejected it, EW
took... |
| 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... |
| 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. 21 |
| Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's meticulous character study and tragic love story is sometimes considered her best novel. It was positively received by George Meredith
, Sir J. M. Barrie
, and Henry James. James
wrote to her... |
| Residence | Algernon Charles Swinburne | In 1862 ACS
shared a house with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, William Michael Rossetti
, and George Meredith
in Cheyne Walk in Chelsea. (Meredith and William Michael were there only intermittently.) Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Stewart | The book is headed with a stanza from George Meredith
: Enter these enchanted woods, / You who dare. Stewart, Mary. Thornyhold. William Morrow. prelims |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Dora Sigerson | The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter appeared with an introduction by George Meredith
. Sigerson, Dora, and George Meredith. The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter. Hodder and Stoughton. title-page Bailey, John Cann. “Mrs. Shorter’s Poems”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 304, p. 340. 340 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Louisa Catherine Shore | Elegies was praised by Robert Browning
, George Meredith
, and William Gladstone
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Shore, Arabella. First and Last Poems. Grant Richards. v |
| Publishing | Arabella Shore | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Flora Shaw | 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... |
| Education | Dora Russell |
Timeline
7 July 1849: George Meredith's first published work, the...
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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...
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By 23 August 1851
George Meredith
published Poems, his first collection.
By 14 April 1855: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton published his...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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By 14 October 1865
George Meredith
published the three-volume novelRhoda Fleming.
1876: George Meredith published his novel Beauchamp's...
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1876
George Meredith
published his novelBeauchamp's Career, in three volumes.
1878: William Swan Sonnenschein and J. Archibald...
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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 novel The Egoist was serialised...
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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...
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By 28 July 1883
George Meredith
published Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth.
By 14 March 1885: George Meredith published Diana of the Crossways,...
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By 14 March 1885
1895: Thomas Bird Mosher of Portland, Maine, began...
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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 et al. 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.