Diana of the Crossways was Meredith’s most (perhaps: only) popular novel.
The heroine Diana Warwick (who lives at a house called The Crossways) is trapped in a miserable marriage.
please inform me when this book comes out
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George Meredith (1828–1909) studied
law, but abandoned the legal profession to become a journalist and a poet.
After a few years he also started to write prose. He published nineteen
novels, but few of them were successful. This was greatly due to his choice of
subjects: the subordinate position of women in Victorian society, people
living together without marrying, seduction, adultery - everything the
Victorians did not like. He had to supplement his writer’s income with a job
as a publisher’s reader. It was only a few years before his death that he
received some recognition. Diana of the Crossways was Meredith’s most (perhaps: only) popular novel. The heroine Diana Warwick (who lives at a house called The Crossways) is trapped in a miserable marriage. |
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Alienated from her husband Augustus,
she starts a relationship with Lord Dannisburgh, which leads to a legal
accusation of adultery. She also becomes the centre of a political and
social scandal. Eventually Diana achieves a sort of freedom, but
only after the deaths of both Lord Dannisburgh and her husband. please inform me when this book comes out
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