Originally published in 1912. Author: A.G. Meredith Language: English Keywords: Literature George Meredith, OM (February 12, 1828 - May 18, 1909) was an English novelist and poet. He was born in Portsmouth, England, a son and grandson of naval outfitters. His mother died when he was five. At the age of 14 he was sent to a Moravian School in Neuwied, Germany, where he remained for two years. He read law and was articled as a solicitor, but abandoned that profession for journalism and poetry shortly after marrying Mary Ellen Nicolls, a widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, in 1849. He was twenty-one years old she was thirty. He collected his early writings, first published in periodicals, into Poems, which was published to some acclaim in 1851. His wife left him and their five-year old son in 1858 she died three years later. Her departure was the inspiration for The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, his first ""major novel"". He married Marie Vulliamy in 1864 and settled in Surrey. He...

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