George Meredith

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Mackays lived close to writer George Meredith , whom young Minnie came to revere. He encouraged her to develop her musical talents.

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...

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...

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...

In this novel MA fictionalised the sordid and often undignified wrangles which she was experiencing with the Inland Revenue . Its opening is particularly memorable. It is a novel of setting (again the English...