George Meredith

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Standard Name: Meredith, George
Used Form: George Edward Meredith

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Wealth and Poverty Hannah Lynch
HL first appealed for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund in 1895. On 14 February that year Walter Besant wrote a letter on her behalf which emphasized her ill health and friendless condition; Mabel Robinson
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michael Field
Both Edith and Katharine contributed to this extraordinary journal, giving their impressions of travel, art, religion, death, and love. They also record encounters with their literary contemporaries, including Robert Browning , George Meredith , John Ruskin
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marghanita Laski
ML defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source.
Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press.
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An ecstatic state is one in which...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Vernon Lee
This collection of essays, written at various times from about thirty years before its publication, constitutes a more thorough and effective study of psychological aesthetics than those undertaken by Lee and Kit Anstruther-Thomson on visual...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marjorie Bowen
MB credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson 's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson 's Miriam and...
Textual Production Alice Meynell
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,
Meynell, Alice. Alice Meynell: Prose and Poetry. Editors Page, Frederick and Vita Sackville-West, Jonathon Cape.
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and are revealing about the...
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford , Elizabeth Gaskell , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Camilla Crosland , Anthony Trollope , George Eliot , Julia Kavanagh
Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
As translator of Maeterlinck , LAT signed (with Yeats , Meredith , Swinburne , Hardy , Arthur Symons , Lucas Malet , John Oliver Hobbes, and others) a letter to the Times protesting against...
Textual Production Sarah Grand
An entire literary-social movement evolved alongside SG 's writings about the New Woman. New Woman fiction, amounting to a new genre, had already been produced by George Egerton in 1893, and was produced by Iota (Kathleen Caffyn)
Textual Production Lucie Duff Gordon
South Africa was the first place where LDG lived on doctor's orders, apart from her family, in hopes that the warm, dry climate would help relieve her from tuberculosis. She began writing letters to her...
Textual Production Hannah Lynch
HL 's literary career accelerated in the early 1890s. She completed her novel The Prince of Glades in 1890 and published it in 1891.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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George Meredith : A Study came...
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.
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Bailey, John Cann. “Mrs. Shorter’s Poems”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 304, p. 340.
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Textual Production Alice Meynell
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 .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape.
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Textual Features Margery Allingham
In this novel MA fictionalised the sordid and often undignified wrangles
Martin, Richard. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press.
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which she was experiencing with the Inland Revenue . Its opening is particularly memorable. It is a novel of setting (again the English...
Textual Features Thomas Hardy
TH 's earliest poems, written in London, reflect the influence of Shakespeare and George Meredith on one hand,
Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin.
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and on the other a fierce and individual concern with words, which he pushes to...

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

George Meredith published Diana of the Crossways, a novel based on the life of Caroline Norton .

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.