George Meredith, English novelist and poet (born 1828)

George Meredith

British novelist and poet (1828–1909)

George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a reputation as a novelist. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) briefly scandalised Victorian…