George Meredith

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...

The Mackays lived close to writer George Meredith , whom young Minnie came to revere. He encouraged her to develop her musical talents.

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)...

George Meredith , who greatly admired LDG , later lived in a cottage near the Duff Gordons following his separation from his wife. He was to look back at his time spent at the Gordon...

During a trip to Athens in the late 1880s HL met Rosamond Venning , with whom she explored the city and enjoyed a shared literary interest. In 1891 HL dedicated her study of George Meredith

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...

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

They made a friend of George Meredith some time before 1890 and visited him often. (When he sent them a signed copy of Modern Love, they were inspired to dance a Dionysic dance...

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...

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...

JOH 's speeches and interviews regularly deal with literature. In an interview with William Archer , she admits to admiring Arthur Wing Pinero 's characterisation of women, while noting how little individualised are some of...

AM 's associations with Aubrey de Vere , Patmore , and Meredith were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. Her approach to poetry and...

The book is headed with a stanza from George Meredith : Enter these enchanted woods, / You who dare. Geillis, or Gilly, Ramsey, has a bleak and miserable childhood (in which some autobiographical element...

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...

Pearl Richards (later JOH ) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less...