Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: George Meredith

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...Chester Armstrong George MeredithPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay George MeredithPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He presse...Philip Ballard George MeredithPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ...George Meredith[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'... Helena Swanwick recalled one exception from among the succession of inadequate domestic servants who passed throu...George MeredithNovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'At one poetical evening [at Wilfrid Blunt's home Crabbet Park], when the guests included A. E. Housman and Desmond Ma...Wilfrid Meynell George MeredithModern LovePrint: Book
1850-1899"[George] Meredtih's penultimate novel, Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894), was, [Henry] James told Edmund Gosse [in le...Henry James George MeredithLord Ormont and his AmintaPrint: Book
1850-1899'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta...Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1850-1899"[Wilfrid Scawen] Blunt was a great admirer of [Meredith's] Modern Love and, though he only read it thirty years after...Wilfrid Scawen Blunt George MeredithModern LovePrint: Book
1900-1945"Lady Cynthia Asquith ... believed [as she recorded in her diary] that 'Meredith is very good for reading aloud.' On ...Lady Cynthia Asquith George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945"... Lady Cynthia [Asquith] was gratified to learn that, found in his pocket when Billy Grenfell was killed in battle ...Lady Desborough George Meredithpoem
1900-1945"At the age of 18 Violet Asquith ... tackled The Egoist, which 'I thought brilliant. The first 3 pages made me so ang...Violet Asquith George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ...D.R. Davies George MeredithPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ...Wil John Edwards George MeredithPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899
Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ......Ada Cambridge George Meredith[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...John Masefield George MeredithPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 22 August 1894: " ... I have vowed not to open Lourdes [by Zola] till I shall have closed...Henry James George MeredithLord Ormont and His AmintaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the Shaving of Shagpat'.George Eliot [pseud.] George MeredithThe Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian EntertainmentPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 10 October 1912: 'I have received within a day or two dear old George Meredith's "Let...Henry James George MeredithLettersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary...John Ellingham Brooks George Meredith[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In discussing Meredith's "Evan Harrington" (1861) in a letter to Campbell, Arthur reveals his Victorian-orientated in...Arthur Symons George MeredithEvan HarringtonPrint: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] George Meredith[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea...Arthur Vanson George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard FeverelPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea...Arthur Vanson George MeredithEvan HarringtonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea...Arthur Vanson George MeredithVittoriaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea...Arthur Vanson George MeredithRhoda FlemingPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea...Arthur Vanson George MeredithHarry RichmansPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea...Arthur Vanson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea...Arthur Vanson George MeredithDiana of the CrosswaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Moreover I have been reading Meredith's letters - undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of English literature -especial...Arnold Bennett George MeredithLetters vol 1Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 11 April 1913: '[italics]I've[end italics] never met a writer who didn't nurse ...Virginia Woolf George MeredithlettersUnknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ...Edgar Woolf George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard FeverelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th...Edward Morgan Forster George MeredithEvan HarringtonPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re...George Gissing George MeredithDiana of the CrosswaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re...George Gissing George Meredith[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere...Alfred Tennyson George MeredithPrint: Unknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'In G. Meredith's first little volume he was delighted ...Alfred Tennyson George Meredith'Love in a Valley'Print: Book
1900-1945'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane ...William Arnold George MeredithPrint: Book
1900-1945'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane ...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithRichard FeverelPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithEgoist, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithVittoriaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithBeauchamp's CareerPrint: Book
1850-1899'Another pilgrimage Mrs Cragie made was to see George Meredith at his house on Box Hill. To visit Meredith was a great...Zoe Procter George Meredith[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'Another pilgrimage Mrs Cragie made was to see George Meredith at his house on Box Hill. To visit Meredith was a great...Zoe Procter George Meredith[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel...Arnold Bennett George MeredithEvan HarringtonPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel...Arnold Bennett George MeredithBeauchamp's CareerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M...Henry Marriage Wallis George MeredithPrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M...Walter Rowntree George MeredithDiana of the CrosswaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M...Walter Rowntree George MeredithDiana of the CrosswaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M...Henry Marriage Wallis George Meredith[two poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M...Members of the XII Book ClubGeorge Meredith[poetry and prose]Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ...Henry Marriage Wallis George MeredithPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ...Charles Stansfield George MeredithPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ...Katherine Evans George MeredithRichard FeverelPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ...Mary Robson George MeredithEgoist, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ...Charles Evans George Meredith'Juggling Jerry'Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throw...David Lloyd George George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throw...Frances Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book

 

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