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George Meredith


Born
in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, The United Kingdom
February 12, 1828

Died
May 18, 1909

Genre
Fiction, Poetry, Classics


George Meredith of Britain wrote novels, such as The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859), and poetic works, including Modern Love (1862).

During the Victorian era, Meredith read law, and people articled him as a solicitor, but shortly after marrying Mary Ellen Nicolls, a 30-year-old widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, in 1849 at 21 years of age, he abandoned that profession for journalism.

He collected his early writings, first published in periodicals, into Poems, which was published to some acclaim in 1851. His wife left him and their five-year old son in 1858; she died three years later. Her departure was the inspiration for The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859), his first "major novel." It was considered a breakthrough novel, b ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 4,536 ratings · 473 reviews · 1,523 distinct works • Similar authors
The Egoist
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3.65 avg rating — 1,757 ratings — published 1879 — 328 editions
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
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3.52 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 1859 — 366 editions
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Modern Love
3.56 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1862 — 56 editions
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Diana of the Crossways
3.45 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1885 — 316 editions
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The Case of General Ople an...
3.29 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1890
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The Shaving of Shagpat
3.59 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1856
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Comedy: "An Essay on Comedy...
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Celt and Saxon - Complete
3.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1910 — 155 editions
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Poems of George Meredith
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Series by George Meredith

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“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
― George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways
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“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”
― George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
tags: civilized, man, woman, women
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“Kissing don't last: cookery do !”
― George Meredith
tags: food
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