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Author | : George Meredith |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2016-11-24 |
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ISBN | : 9781540624550 |
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George Meredith, OM (12 February 1828 - 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. Diana of the Crossways is a novel by George Meredith which was published in 1885. It is an account of an intelligent and forceful woman trapped in a miserable marriage and was prompted by Meredith's friendship with society beauty and author Caroline Norton. The heroine Diana Warwick says: "we women are the verbs passive of the alliance, we have to learn, and if we take to activity, with the best intentions, we conjugate a frightful disturbance. We are to run on lines, like the steam-trains, or we come to no station, dash to fragments. I have the misfortune to know I was born an active. I take my chance." Her efforts to advance her husband, through cultivating a friendship with Cabinet Minister Lord Dannisburgh, leads to scandal and alienation from her husband, Augustus Warwick. Her intention to live "independently" through writing, are initially successful, but her involvement in politics brings her to grief, both personal and public.
Author | : George Meredith |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-03-23 |
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ISBN | : 9781544883830 |
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Diana of the Crossways is a novel by George Meredith which was published in 1885. It is an account of an intelligent and forceful woman trapped in a miserable marriage and was prompted by Meredith's friendship with society beauty and author Caroline Norton. The heroine Diana Warwick says: "we women are the verbs passive of the alliance, we have to learn, and if we take to activity, with the best intentions, we conjugate a frightful disturbance. We are to run on lines, like the steam-trains, or we come to no station, dash to fragments. I have the misfortune to know I was born an active. I take my chance." Her efforts to advance her husband, through cultivating a friendship with Cabinet Minister Lord Dannisburgh, leads to scandal and alienation from her husband, Augustus Warwick. Her intention to live "independently" through writing, are initially successful, but her involvement in politics brings her to grief, both personal and public.
Author | : George Meredith |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2022-06-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Diana of the Crossways – Complete is novel by George Meredith. Loosely based on the life of Victorian socialite Caroline Norton, the story of a woman marrying a violent man only to escape and climb societal ladders is a refreshing one.
Author | : George Meredith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Author | : George Meredith |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-05-26 |
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ISBN | : 9781546966357 |
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Diana of the Crossways is a novel by George Meredith which was published in 1885. It is an account of an intelligent and forceful woman trapped in a miserable marriage and was prompted by Meredith's friendship with society beauty and author Caroline Norton. The heroine Diana Warwick says: "we women are the verbs passive of the alliance, we have to learn, and if we take to activity, with the best intentions, we conjugate a frightful disturbance. We are to run on lines, like the steam-trains, or we come to no station, dash to fragments. I have the misfortune to know I was born an active. I take my chance." Her efforts to advance her husband, through cultivating a friendship with Cabinet Minister Lord Dannisburgh, leads to scandal and alienation from her husband, Augustus Warwick. Her intention to live "independently" through writing, are initially successful, but her involvement in politics brings her to grief, both personal and public. Diana, beautiful, charming and intelligent but hotheaded, becomes embroiled in a political as well as a social scandal (the politics are based on the troubled history of Robert Peel's administration, and the 1845 Corn Laws in particular).
Author | : George Meredith |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2008-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781437833409 |
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Author | : George Meredith |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : English Novel |
ISBN | : 1427071810 |
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Author | : George Meredith |
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Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : British literature |
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Author | : Virginia Brackett |
Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
Total Pages | : 2708 |
Release | : 2015-04-22 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 1438140681 |
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Total Pages | : 1088 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Literature |
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