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

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence John Oliver Hobbes
JOH 's speeches and interviews regularly deal with literature. In an interview with William Archer , she admits to admiring Arthur Wing Pinero 's characterisation of women, while noting how little individualised are some of...
Literary responses Viola Meynell
In The Bookman, C. E. Lawrence welcomed this novel as an individual effort of work which proves that however much she may have studied in the past . . . Miss Meynell has a...
Literary responses Edna St Vincent Millay
In The NationRolfe Humphries responded with comment on the shape of her career, regretting that she had become a legend before becoming a success, that her public now included collectors as well as readers...
Literary responses Sarah Grand
Feminists, social reformers, and literary men, such as Mark Twain , George Meredith , and George Bernard Shaw , greeted this novel with excitement and appreciation.
Mitchell, Sally, and Sarah Grand. “Introduction”. The Beth Book, Thoemmes, 1994, p. v - xxiv.
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SG wrote a caustic letter to the Daily...
Literary responses Sarah Grand
The Times Literary Supplement called this novel a preposterous story, preposterously related.
qtd. in
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
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On the other hand, the Athenæum praised SG both for not shying away from serious issues and for treating them in an...
Literary responses Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL 's regular Times Literary Supplement reviewer, H. Child , observed that only one of the stories, According to Meredith, had a thesis (that of a legal time-limit for marriages), and that this was...
Literary responses Michael Field
George Meredith wrote to thank the poets for sending him his much treasured copy.
qtd. in
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933.
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I have not recently or for many years, he gushed, read verse that moved me so for the faultless flow...
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..
qtd. in
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933.
71
He said he hoped that neither woman had been wounded by a most unjust review in the press.
qtd. in
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933.
70
Literary responses Louisa Catherine Shore
Elegies was praised by Robert Browning , George Meredith , and William Gladstone .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Shore, Arabella. First and Last Poems. Grant Richards, 1900.
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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, 1933.
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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, 1981.
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George Meredith admired her devout but open mind, and declared that she would some day rank as...
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 Violet Hunt
Boots the chemist, which operated circulating libraries in its shops, refused to the stock this novel (as it already refused VH 's Sooner or Later) because of its alleged sensationalism.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
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Secor, Marie. “Violet Hunt, Novelist: A Reintroduction”. English Literature in Transition, Vol.
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, 1976, pp. 25-34.
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VH received...
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.
qtd. in
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933.
90
If you had irony in aim, he scolded, you should...

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