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George Meredith

Male : Novelist, Journalist & poet. Married Mary Nicolls, a widow in 1849. She deserted him in 1858 and in 1864 he married Marie Vulliamy
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Portsmouth, Hampshire

Date of Birth : 1828 Date of Death : 1909 Age : 81

Education : The Moravian School at Neuwied, nr Coblenz
1851-1860
Poems
(1851 John W Parker) - 500
The Shaving of Shagpat : An Arabian Entertainment
(1856 Chapman & Hall) (1865 C & H. Sandys)
Farina : A Legend of Cologne
(1857 Smith Elder)
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
(1859 C & H) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £500

1861-1870
Evan Harrington
(1861 Bradbury & Evans) - 3 vols
Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside
(1862 Chapman & Hall)
Emilia in England
(1864 C & H) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £380
Rhoda Fleming
(1865 Tinsley Bros) - 3 vols
Vittoria
(1867 C & H) - 3 vols

1871-1880
The Adventures of Harry Richmond
(1871 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
Beauchamp's Career
(1876 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
The House on the Beach
(1877 Harper, US)
The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative
(1879 Kegan Paul) - 3 vols

1881-1890
The Tragic Comedians
(1881 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols
Modern Love and his Aminta
(1881 Thos B Mosher, Portland, Maine) - 400
Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth
(1883 Macmillan)
Diana of the Crossways : A Novel
(1885 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life
(1887 Macmillan)
A Reading of Earth
(1888 Macmillan)
The Pilgrim's Scrip, or Wit & Wisdom of George Meredith
(1888 Roberts Bros, US)

1891-1900
One of Our Conquerors
(1891 C & H) - 3 vols
Poems : The Empty Purse
(1892 Macmillan)
Jump to Glory Jane
(1892 Swann, Sonnenschein) - Ltd Ed 1000. Laurence Housman
100 signed by the Publisher. Offered in 1991 for £350
Lord Ormont & His Aminta
(1894 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Lord Ormont & His Aminta
(1894 C & H) - 3 vols. 1500
The Tale of Chloe & Other Stories
(1894 Ward Lock & Bowden)
The Amazing Marriage
(1895 Constable) - 2 vols
Selected Poems
(1897 Constable)
An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit
(1897 Constable)
Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History
(1898 Constable)
The Nature Poems
(1898 Constable) - Ltd paper Ed 375. William Hyde
The Story of Bhanavar the Beautiful
(1900 Constable)

1901-1910
A Reading of Life
(1901 Constable)
The Works
(1904-8 Constable) - 18 vols
The Meredith Pocketbook
(1906 Constable)
Last Poems
(1909 Constable)
Poems Written in Early Youth
(1909 Constable)
Chillianwallah
(1909 PP in New York) - Papmphlet. Ltd Ed 112
Twenty Poems
(1909 PP) - Ltd Ed 25
The Works
(Memorial Edition Ed by his son) (1909-12 Constable) - 29 vols
Celt and Saxon
(1910 Constable) (1910 Scribner)
Miscellaneous Prose
(1910 Constable)
The Works
(1910-20 Constable - Standard Edition) - 18 vols

After 1911
The Letters of GM : Ed by his son
(1912 Constable) - 2 vols
The Works
(1912 Times Book Club) - 17 works in 24 vols
Letters from GM to Edward Clodd & Clement K Shorter
(1919 PP in S Africa) - Ltd ed 30
Letters from Gm to Algernon Swinburne & Theodore Watts-Dunton
(1922 PP in S Africa) - Ltd ed 30
Letters from GM to Alice Meynell
(1923 Nonesuch Press) - Ltd Ed 850
Letters to Various Correspondents
(1924 PP in S Africa) - Ltd Ed 30
Modern Love
(1934 Overbrook Press, Stamford) - 150
The Shaving of Shagpat
(1955 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Honore Guilbeau
The Letters of GM
(1970 Oxford) - 3 vols. edited by C L Cline

READING
Richard Le Gallienne : George Meredith - Some Characteristics
(1890 Elkin Mathews)
Hannah Lynch : George Meredith - A Study
(1891 Methuen)
Arundell Esdaile : A Chronological List of George Meredith's Publications 1849-1911
(1914 Constable)
Lady Alice Mary Butcher : Memories of George Meredith
(1919)
S M Ellis : George Meredith - His Life & Friends in Relation to His Work
(1920 Grant Richards)
M B Forman : A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose & Verse of Meredith
(1922-4 Bibl Soc, London) - 2 vols
Mary Gretton : The Writings & Life of George Meredith - A Centenary Study
(1926 OUP)
Jack Lindsay : George Meredith - His Life and Work
(1956)
David Williams : George Meredith - His Life and Lost Love
(1977)

Related Writers

Laurence Housman
Jack Lindsay


See also

J M (james Matthew) Barrie
Compleat Imbiber Series
Richard Thomas Le Gallienne
Cecil Day Lewis
Nonesuch Press, The
In Print 1994 Penguin Classics
John Boynton Priestley
Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett
Sir Osbert Sitwell