George Meredith: Quick Facts


Facts

Born February 12, 1828 • Portsmouth • England
Died May 18, 1909 (aged 81) • Surrey • England
Notable Works “Beauchamp’s Career” • “Diana of the Crossways” • “Evan Harrington” • “Lord Ormont and His Aminta” • “Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads” • “One of Our Conquerors” • “Sandra Belloni” • “The Adventures of Harry Richmond” • “The Amazing Marriage” • “The Egoist” • “The Ordeal of Richard Feverel” • “The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment”

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
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Qian Zhongshu
Chinese scholar and author
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James Crerar Reaney
Canadian writer
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Thomas Blackburn
British poet
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John Banim
Irish author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
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John Donne
English poet
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
Thomas Hardy
British writer
Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.
Daniel Defoe
English author
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
British author
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Anna Seward
English poet, literary critic, and intellectual
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish writer
Charlotte BrontĂŤ
Charlotte BrontĂŤ
English novelist
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
English author
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar