Diana of the Crossways — Complete

Diana of the Crossways — Complete
Title Diana of the Crossways — Complete PDF eBook
Author George Meredith
Publisher DigiCat
Pages 417
Release 2022-06-13
Genre Fiction
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Diana of the Crossways – Complete is novel by George Meredith. Loosely based on the life of Victorian socialite Caroline Norton, the story of a woman marrying a violent man only to escape and climb societal ladders is a refreshing one.

Diana of the Crossways

Diana of the Crossways
Title Diana of the Crossways PDF eBook
Author George Meredith
Publisher ReadHowYouWant.com
Pages 446
Release 1897
Genre Great Britain
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Diana of the crossways

Diana of the crossways
Title Diana of the crossways PDF eBook
Author George Meredith
Publisher BoD - Books on Demand
Pages 313
Release 2023-06-19
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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" Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: 'an unusual combination,' in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin cast upon the bosom of mother Earth; though men must look some day to have it returned to them, which is a certainty; and indeed full surely will our idle-handed youngster too, in his riper season; be heard complaining of a strange assault of wanton missiles, coming on him he knows not whence; for we are all of us distinctly marked to get back what we give, even from the thing named inanimate nature."

The Tragicomic Novel

The Tragicomic Novel
Title The Tragicomic Novel PDF eBook
Author Randall Craig
Publisher University of Delaware Press
Pages 204
Release 1989
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780874133394

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Theoretically grounded in classical and Renaissance writings, as well as in the work of modern theorists, this study analyzes the role of tragicomedy in the development of the English novel from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Diana of the Crossways, the Awkward Age, the Old Wives' Tale, and Ulysses are among the illustrative works discussed.

Diana of the Crossways

Diana of the Crossways
Title Diana of the Crossways PDF eBook
Author George Meredith
Publisher
Pages 422
Release 1893
Genre
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Diana of the Crossways. Volume 1

Diana of the Crossways. Volume 1
Title Diana of the Crossways. Volume 1 PDF eBook
Author George Meredith
Publisher Litres
Pages 128
Release 2021-01-18
Genre Fiction
ISBN 5041627088

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The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives

The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives
Title The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives PDF eBook
Author Diane Johnson
Publisher New York Review of Books
Pages 273
Release 2020-06-23
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1681374463

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A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and at odds with the constraints of Victorian life. “Many people have described the Famous Writer presiding at his dinner table. . . . He is famous; everybody remembers his remarks. . . . We forget that there were other family members at the table—a quiet person, now muffled by time, shadowy, whose heart pounded with love, perhaps, or rage.” So begins The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives, an uncommon biography devoted to one of those “lesser lives.” As the author points out, “A lesser life does not seem lesser to the person who leads one.” Such sympathy and curiosity compelled Diane Johnson to research Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith (1821–1861), the daughter of the famous artist Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) and first wife of the equally famous poet George Meredith (1828–1909). Her life, treated perfunctorily and prudishly in biographies of Peacock or Meredith, is here exquisitely and unhurriedly given its due. What emerges is the portrait of a brilliant, well-educated woman, raised unconventionally by her father only to feel more forcefully the constraints of the Victorian era. First published in 1972, Lesser Lives has been a key text for feminists and biographers alike, a book that reimagined what biography might be, both in terms of subject and style. Biographies of other “lesser” lives have since followed in its footsteps, but few have the wit, elegance, and empathy of Johnson’s seminal work.