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), Lynch, Hannah. Through Troubled Waters. Ward, Lock, and Co., 1885, p. viii, 460 pp. 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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Dora Russell | |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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 |
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 | Alice Meynell | 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), Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946. 12 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | 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)... |
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 |
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 poem Chillianwallah, appeared in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.
Meredith, George. Poems. Surrey ed., Vol.
3 vols.
, Times Book Club, 1912. 1
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.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
35
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
32
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1433 (14 April 1855): 426-7
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1471 (1856): 6-7
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. George Meredith: His Life and Friends in Relation to His Work. Grant Richards, 1920.
79
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1654 (9 July 1859): 48
Collie, Michael. George Meredith: A Bibliography. University of Toronto Press, 1974.
19-20
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1805 (1862): 719
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.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
553, 653
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
By 14 October 1865: George Meredith published the three-volume...
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By 14 October 1865
George Meredith
published the three-volume novel Rhoda Fleming.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
640
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1876: George Meredith published his novel Beauchamp's...
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1876
George Meredith
published his novel Beauchamp's Career, in three volumes.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
35
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.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 291-2
June 1879-January 1880: George Meredith's novel The Egoist was serialised...
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June 1879-January 1880
George Meredith
's novel The Egoist was serialised in the Glasgow Weekly Herald.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
210
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2909 (1883): 103
By 14 March 1885: George Meredith published Diana of the Crossways,...
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By 14 March 1885
George Meredith
published Diana of the Crossways, a novel based on the life of Caroline Norton
.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2994 (1885): 339
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
291-3
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.
“An Exhibition of Books from the Press of Thomas Bird Mosher, from the collection of Norman H. Strouse, January 16th - March 12th 1967”. The Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Square.
Texts
Meredith, George. Beauchamp’s Career. Chapman and Hall, 1876, 3 vols.
Meredith, George. “Chillianwallah”. Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal.
Meredith, George. Diana of the Crossways. Chapman and Hall, 1885, 3 vols.
Meredith, George. Emilia in England. Chapman and Hall, 1864, 3 vols.
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. Revised ed., R. B. Johnson, 1902.
Duff Gordon, Lucie et al. Letters from Egypt. Virago, 1983.
Meredith, George. Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside. Chapman and Hall, 1862.
Meredith, George. Poems. J. W. Parker and Son, 1851.
Meredith, George. Poems. Surrey ed., Vol.
3 vols.
, Times Book Club, 1912. Meredith, George. Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth. Macmillan, 1883.
Meredith, George. Rhoda Fleming. Tinsley Brothers, 1865, 3 vols.
Sigerson, Dora, and George Meredith. The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter. Hodder and Stoughton, 1907.
Meredith, George. The Egoist. C. Kegan Paul, 1879, 3 vols.
Meredith, George. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. Chapman and Hall, 1859, 3 vols.
Meredith, George. The Shaving of Shagpat. Chapman and Hall, 1856.