George Meredith

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Standard Name: Meredith, George
Used Form: George Edward Meredith
George Meredith, in profile, with a tidy grey beard and moustache

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Dedications Hannah Lynch
HL 's first novel, Through Troubled Waters, (dedicated to George Meredithas a slight token of a very sincere admiration),
Lynch, Hannah. Through Troubled Waters. Ward, Lock, and Co., 1885, p. viii, 460 pp.
was published by Ward, Lock and Co. in London.
Murphy, James H. Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age. Oxford University Press, 2011.
233 and n71
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3004 (1885): 660
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Education Dora Russell
Her subjects included German and French, philosophy and literature, particularly such writers as Kant , Heine , Pascal , Racine , and Voltaire . Among English authors, she admired George Meredith (Modern Love))...
Education Viola Meynell
After leaving school at sixteen, VM read widely on her own, especially English authors: George Eliot , Dickens , George Meredith , Arnold Bennett , John Galsworthy , and Thomas Hardy .
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002.
61, 65
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...
Education Anna Steele
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
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.
Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, 1983, pp. 32-56.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Webb
MW 's father and mentor was George Edward Meredith , head of a boys' preparatory school and a gentleman farmer.
Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth, 1978.
21
He painted and wrote poetry. Mary was devoted to him and loved going riding...
Fictionalization Alice Meynell
To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf 's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore and Francis Thompson
Fictionalization Caroline Norton
CN was depicted as Berengaria Montford by Disraeli in Endymion (written in the 1830s but unpublished until 1880). George Meredith said he based the heroine of Diana of the Crossways, 1885, partly on 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...
Friends, Associates Alice Meynell
AM 's friendship with George Meredith did not begin until very late in Patmore's life (it was already arousing bitter jealousy in early 1896),
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946.
12
but it lasted until Meredith's death, on 18 May 1909...
Friends, Associates Flora Shaw
Here she became a friend of novelist and neighbour George Meredith , who introduced her to a wider social circle, including W.T. Stead , the scandalous journalist and editor of the Pall Mall Gazette...
Friends, Associates Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR lived with the Stephens after their marriage, and while there became a friend of such literary figures as George Meredith , Henry James (who described her after an early encounter as exquisitely irrational)...
Friends, Associates Sarah Grand
In 1896 SG met George Meredith (who had rejected her manuscript of The Heavenly Twins some years earlier) and Alice Meynell in the Surrey Hills, at Burford Bridge Hotel,Box Hill, near Dorking.
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983.
89-90

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 poem Chillianwallah, appeared in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.
Meredith, George. Poems. Surrey ed., Vol.
3 vols.
, Times Book Club, 1912.
1

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.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
35

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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
32
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1433 (14 April 1855): 426-7

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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1471 (1856): 6-7
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. George Meredith: His Life and Friends in Relation to His Work. Grant Richards, 1920.
79

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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1654 (9 July 1859): 48
Collie, Michael. George Meredith: A Bibliography. University of Toronto Press, 1974.
19-20

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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1805 (1862): 719

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.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
553, 653
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

By 14 October 1865: George Meredith published the three-volume...

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By 14 October 1865

George Meredith published the three-volume novel Rhoda Fleming.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
640
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

1876: George Meredith published his novel Beauchamp's...

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1876

George Meredith published his novel Beauchamp's Career, in three volumes.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 291-2

June 1879-January 1880: George Meredith's novel The Egoist was serialised...

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June 1879-January 1880

George Meredith 's novel The Egoist was serialised in the Glasgow Weekly Herald.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
210

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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2909 (1883): 103

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 .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2994 (1885): 339
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
291-3

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.
“An Exhibition of Books from the Press of Thomas Bird Mosher, from the collection of Norman H. Strouse, January 16th - March 12th 1967”. The Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Square.

Texts

Meredith, George. Beauchamp’s Career. Chapman and Hall, 1876, 3 vols.
Meredith, George. “Chillianwallah”. Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal.
Meredith, George. Diana of the Crossways. Chapman and Hall, 1885, 3 vols.
Meredith, George. Emilia in England. Chapman and Hall, 1864, 3 vols.
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. Revised ed., R. B. Johnson, 1902.
Duff Gordon, Lucie et al. Letters from Egypt. Virago, 1983.
Meredith, George. Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside. Chapman and Hall, 1862.
Meredith, George. Poems. J. W. Parker and Son, 1851.
Meredith, George. Poems. Surrey ed., Vol.
3 vols.
, Times Book Club, 1912.
Meredith, George. Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth. Macmillan, 1883.
Meredith, George. Rhoda Fleming. Tinsley Brothers, 1865, 3 vols.
Sigerson, Dora, and George Meredith. The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter. Hodder and Stoughton, 1907.
Meredith, George. The Egoist. C. Kegan Paul, 1879, 3 vols.
Meredith, George. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. Chapman and Hall, 1859, 3 vols.
Meredith, George. The Shaving of Shagpat. Chapman and Hall, 1856.