George Meredith

George Meredith was born in 1828 and hid all his life that he was the son and grandson of tailors. His first marriage, to the daughter of a writer who appears in this catalogue, broke down when his wife left him for a painter; she died soon afterwards and he did not attend the funeral. A publisher's reader for more than thirty years, he advised and discovered other novelists, while the great lending library of the time refused one of his novels. He died in 1909, loaded with honours.

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• NovelThe EgoistGeorge Meredith · 1879LiteraturePublic domain