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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Residence | Algernon Charles Swinburne | In 1862 ACS
shared a house with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, William Michael Rossetti
, and George Meredith
in Cheyne Walk in Chelsea. (Meredith and William Michael were there only intermittently.) |
| Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's meticulous character study and tragic love story is sometimes considered her best novel. It was positively received by George Meredith
, Sir J. M. Barrie
, and Henry James. James
wrote to her... |
| Publishing | Arabella Shore | In addition to her poetry, AS
published at least three significant pieces of literary criticism: essays on the contemporary, active George Meredith
and on Marie de Sévigné
for the British Quarterly Review in 1879 and... |
| Publishing | Ellen Wood | The novel had been twice offered to the publishing house of Chapman and Hall
, and was recommended by William Harrison Ainsworth
. After their reader (novelist George Meredith
) twice rejected it, EW
took... |
| Publishing | Sarah Grand | It took her three years to find a publisher willing to take on its controversial subject-matter. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 245 |
| Publishing | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
began early to publish short stories. In her diary she wrote that the first to see print was in a journal called Merry England (edited by Alice
and Wilfrid Meynell
from May 1883 to... |
| Publishing | Thomas Hardy | TH
's first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected in turn by Macmillan
(after reading by Alexander Macmillan
and John Morley
), by Chapman and Hall
(after reading by George Meredith |
| Author summary | Alice Meynell | 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... |
| Occupation | Cicely Hamilton | This role led to several more in productions of plays by George Meredith
, J. M. Barrie
, and others. Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press. 131-2 |
| 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. 67 |
| Literary responses | John Oliver Hobbes | More recently, Margaret Maison
characterised The School For Saints as a strange mixture of Disraeli
, Hardy
, Ouida
, and Meredith
. . . and there are even echoes of the old bigamy novels... |
| Literary responses | Michael Field | In a letter, George Meredith
called MF
's characterization of Mary an arresting study.. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray. 71 Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray. 70 |
| 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. 88 |
| Literary responses | Alice Meynell | The Pall Mall Gazette praised AM
's dramatic criticism in particular as the best of the age. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 132 |
| 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... |
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