George Meredith

Through her youngest sister AS met many key figures of the day, including Irish Home-Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell (Katherine O'Shea's long-term lover and eventual husband), and Justin McCarthy , novelist and Irish Home-Rule MP...

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...

The book is headed with a stanza from George Meredith : Enter these enchanted woods, / You who dare. Geillis, or Gilly, Ramsey, has a bleak and miserable childhood (in which some autobiographical element...

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.)

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...

MW 's father and mentor was George Edward Meredith , head of a boys' preparatory school and a gentleman farmer.He painted and wrote poetry. Mary was devoted to him and loved going riding...

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...

Visitors to Rivenhall included Edwin Landseer , Anthony Trollope and George Meredith . Frequent visits of guests, coupled with the fact that the entire family was expected to participate actively in social life, gave the...

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.