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The characters in this picture from left to right are (above) Emilia in Sandra Belloni; (below) Rhoda Fleming and her father; Evan Harrington and Rose Jocelyn; (above) Aminta in Lord Ormont and his Aminta : (below) Lucy in Richard Feverel; Diana of the Crossways; and below on the extreme right Clara Middleton, the dainty rogue in porcelain of The Egoist
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Title: George Meredith in anecdote and criticism
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir, 1871-1949
Subjects: Meredith, George, 1828-1909
Publisher: London, G. Richards New York, M. Kennerley
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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temporaries. Above all is the remarkable allegiance to femininism, leaving theimpression that in the novelists own character there is a femininestrain, of which he is conscious and proudly so, as when he makesAlvan say : You meet now and then men who have the woman inthem without being womanised; they are the pick of men. Andthe choicest women are those who yield not a feather of theirwomanliness for some amount of manlike strength. The attribut-ing of this sentiment to the author rather than to his personage,irregular as criticism in ordinary, is here legitimate, as it illus-trates a further characteristic of this novelist: often his charactersare uttering not their own thoughts, but their authors; too often toadmit of his possessing absolute dramatic vision. Finally, his long series of novels is unique in our literature, andwith all their faults of construction and style these works containsuch a harvest of philosophy and humour as no other novelist of theVictorian era has garnered.
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Frot)i the orii^ inal thawing by Cyrus Ctineo Meredith and some of his Famous Creations The characters in this picture fruin left to right are (above) Emiha in Sandra Belioni;(below) Rhoda Fleming and her father; Evan Harrington and Rose Jocelyn; (above) Amintain LordOrmont and his Aminta : (below) Lucy in Richard Feverel; Diana of the Crossways;and below on the extreme right Clara Middleton, the dainty rogue in porcelain of The Egoist. X ins HEROINES AND WOMEN-FOLK Your knowledge of women is almost indecent, a celebratedlady novelist—of whose novels the same is partly true—once re-marked to George Meredith. It was a flash of that Dianaesque witwhich Meredith has done not a little to encourage, with results notalways of the happiest. But it states a truism with the legitimateexaggeration of epigram. Since the little printer of Salisbury Squareenchained the whole feminine world of his time with his Pamela *and his Clarissa, no other novelist has rivalled Meredith in theappeal to fe

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