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George Meredith
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith remarried in 1864 primarily to alleviate his personal loneliness. Following the death of his first wife in 1861 and the decision to place his son, Arthur, in a boarding school, Meredith experienced an intensified period of isolation.1
His circumstances changed when he met Marie Vulliamy, an attractive and well-bred woman of Anglo-French descent. After successfully persuading her father of his respectability, Meredith married her in September 1864, a union that effectively ended his period of solitude.1