George Meredith

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)...

CN was depicted as Berengaria Montford by Disraeli in Endymion (written in the 1830s but unpublished until 1880).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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Pall Mall Gazette praised AM 's dramatic criticism in particular as the best of the age.George Meredith admired her devout but open mind, and declared that she would some day rank as...

The volume includes Prefatory Poems by Coventry Patmore , Francis Thompson , George Meredith , Vita Sackville-West , and others. Many of them were written long before Meynell's death, and are revealing about the...

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

HL 's first novel, Through Troubled Waters, (dedicated to George Meredithas a slight token of a very sincere admiration), was published by Ward, Lock and Co. in London.

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