Meredith and the Personal

Cronin, Richard

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Richard Cronin²

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The chapter illustrates Meredith’s hostility to biography, and in doing so establishes the conflict in him between the need to conceal and the need to reveal that organises the whole book.

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1.
Letters, 3, 1342.
2.
Letters, 3, 1356.
3.
The Egoist, chapter 7.
4.
Fortnightly Review, 86 (July 1909), 19–31. Clodd recycled the material in his Memories. Clodd’s Grant Allen: A Memoir was published by Grant Richards in 1900.
5.
Letters, 2, 1048.
6.
Letters, 3, 1411.
7.
Letters, 2, 981.
8.
Letters, 2, 995.
9.
Letters, 3, 1342.
10.
Letters, 3, 1255.
11.
Letters, 3, 1314.
12.
Men of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, containing biographical notices of eminent characters of both sexes, 10th edn (London: Routledge, 1879), 704.
13.
Coustillas, 3, 243.
14.
Letters, 3, 1255.
15.
Letters, 3, 1512.
16.
Edel, 560–1.
17.
Ellis, 13.
18.
W. S. Blunt, My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events 1888–1914, 2 vols (London: Martin Secker, 1919–20), 2, 246. Blunt makes the suggestion on the authority of Wilfred Meynell, the husband of the poet Alice Meynell. The Meynells were friends of Meredith.
19.
Letters, 1, 430.
20.
Letters, 1, 298.
21.
Rhoda Fleming, chapter 16.
22.
Letters, 1, 385.
23.
Diana of the Crossways, chapter 6.
24.
The Amazing Marriage, chapter 46.
25.
Letters, 3, 1684.
26.
Letters, 3, 1529.
27.
Evan Charteris, Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (London; Heinemann, 1931), p. 297.
28.
From Fullerton’s report of the visit in the Boston Advertiser, December 17, 1888, as quoted in Hammerton, 60.
29.
One of Our Conquerors, chapter 12.
30.
Letters of Henry James, 3, 415.
31.
‘Hard Weather’, ‘The South-Wester’ and ‘The Thrush in February’ were published in A Reading of Earth (1888); ‘Whimper of Sympathy’ in Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life (1887).
32.
‘The Woods of Westermain’ was the opening poem in Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth (1883).
33.
‘The Lark Ascending’ like ‘The Woods of Westermain’ was published in Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth (1883).
34.
Letters of George Meredith, collected and edited by his son (London: Constable, 1912).
35.
In his Selected Letters of George Meredith, Mohammad Shaheen includes just six letters unpublished by Cline written in this period.
36.
Letters, 1, 79.
37.
Letters, 2, 951.
38.
Letters, 3, 1335–6.
39.
Letters, 3, 1606.
40.
Letters, 3, 1606.
41.
Hammerton, 19.
42.
Hammerton, 1–2.
43.
Letters of Henry James, 3, 485.
44.
Letters, 3, 1904.
45.
John Sutherland, ‘A Revered Corpse: The Peculiar Unreadability of George Meredith’, Times Literary Supplement, September 5, 1997, p. 5.
46.
See John Bayley’s review of The Poems of George Meredith, ed. Phyllis Bartlett, Times Literary Supplement, October 7, 1978, pp. 1246–8.
47.
One of Our Conquerors, chapter 31.
48.
The thought, included in the serialisation of the novel, was omitted when Vittoria was published as a book. See Fortnightly Review , 6 (September 15, 1866), 322.
49.
The Tragic Comedians, chapter 4.
50.
Notebooks, 36.
51.
Notebooks, 62.
52.
Notebooks, 36.
53.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, chapter 44.
54.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, chapter 34.
55.
Ellis, 137–8. Ellis is quoting the reminiscence of B. T. Lawton, a Cape Town acquaintance of Augustus Meredith’s, that was published in the Cape Times in 1909.
56.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, chapter 25.
57.
The novel was later re-titled Sandra Belloni.
58.
Emilia in England, chapter 1.
59.
Diana of the Crossways, chapter 4.
60.
The Tragic Comedians, chapter 5.
61.
Emilia in England, chapter 38.
62.
The Egoist, chapter 34.
63.
Evan Harrington, chapter 3.
64.
The Egoist, chapter 3.
65.
The Amazing Marriage, chapter 28.
66.
Letters, 2, 901.
67.
The Amazing Marriage, chapter 40.
68.
Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm, Part 1, chapter 13, (London: Chapman and Hall, 1892), p. 108.
69.
The Amazing Marriage, chapter 37.
70.
The Amazing Marriage, chapter 15.
71.
The Amazing Marriage, chapter 23.
72.
The Amazing Marriage, chapter 43.
73.
The Amazing Marriage, chapter 43.
74.
Letters, 1, 506.
75.
Rousseau, 1, 200 and 43.
76.
Rousseau, 1, 212.
77.
Rousseau, 1, 259.
78.
Rousseau, 1, 57–8.
79.
J. H. Morgan, John, Viscount Morley (London, John Murray, 1925), 160.
80.
Rousseau, 1, 40.
81.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, chapter 7.
82.
Letters, 1, 506.
83.
The Egoist, Prelude.
84.
Letters, 3, 1586.
85.
Evan Harrington, chapter 19.
86.
Evan Harrington, chapter 47.
87.
Diana of the Crossways, chapters 35 and 36.
88.
Rhoda Fleming, chapter 46.
89.
Notebooks, 4.
90.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta, chapter 3.
91.
Letters, 3, 1314.
92.
Letters, 2, 717.
93.
Letters, 1, 433.
94.
Diana of the Crossways, chapter 29.
95.
The Amazing Marriage, chapters 35 and 38.

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Cronin, R. (2019). Meredith and the Personal. In: George Meredith. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32448-3_1

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