LETTERS OF GEORGE MEREDITH - 2 TREE CALF VOLS - PRIZE BINDINGS - ILLUS w PLATES
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Double your traffic. LETTERS OF GEORGE MEREDITH HIGH QUALITY VOLUMES with THICK, HIGH QUALITY PAPER & TREE CALF LEATHERCOMPLETE 2 FULL LEATHER VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED with PLATES PRIZE BINDING of ROYAL HOLLOWAY COLLEGE LONDON : Constable and Company Ltd. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty. 1912. DIMENSIONS: approx. 8 1/2" x 6". PAGES: Vol I: vii, 328p. Vol II: [4], 652p. Pagination Continuous. COMPLETE. GEORGE MEREDITH GEORGE MEREDITH , OM (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. Meredith 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 and she was twenty-eight. He collected his early writings, first published in periodicals, into Poems, published to some acclaim in 1851. His wife ran off with the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis [1830–1916] in 1858; she died three years later. The collection of "sonnets" entitled Modern Love (1862) came of this experience as
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