George Meredith

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

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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 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...
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...
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...
Friends, Associates Marie Corelli
The Mackays lived close to writer George Meredith , whom young Minnie came to revere. He encouraged her to develop her musical talents.
Masters, Brian. Now Barabbas Was a Rotter. H. Hamilton.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Friends, Associates Lucie Duff Gordon
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...
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...
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...
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...
Literary responses Michael Field
George Meredith liked the poetry of this play, but had some reservation about the effectiveness of several scenes.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
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Literary responses Michael Field
George Meredith thought the play would act well but added this criticism: I do not find in your dramatic prose the complete ring that there is in the sound and volume of your blank verse...
Literary responses Michael Field
George Meredith wrote to MF after reading Attila, My Attila!, admitting that he had little praise for the line or the characters.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
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If you had irony in aim, he scolded, you should...
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
Friends, Associates Michael Field
They made a friend of George Meredith some time before 1890 and visited him often.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
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(When he sent them a signed copy of Modern Love, they were inspired to dance a Dionysic dance...
Literary responses Michael Field
George Meredith wrote to thank the poets for sending him his much treasured copy.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
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I have not recently or for many years, he gushed, read verse that moved me so for the faultless flow...

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.