Download or read book Diana of the Crossways 1885 Novel by written by George Meredith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Diana of the Crossways written by George Meredith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Diana of the Crossways written by George Meredith and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diana of the Crossways Complete written by George Meredith and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Diana of the Crossways written by George Meredith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).
Download or read book Diana Of The Crossways Book 2 written by George Meredith and published by Double 9 Booksllp. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Meredith's 1885 book Diana of the Crossways Book 2 is based on the life of socialite and author Caroline Norton. At least three copies of Diana of the Crossways, Diana of the Crossways Book 2 is one of them which was published in 1885, and for many years it was Meredith's most well-known book. The book was her first widely read novel. Contemporary authors have made additional comparisons between Diana's marriage and Meredith's own problematic marriage with his first wife Mary Ellen, whose dissolution had greatly upset him for many years. What will happen to Diana? Diana of the Crossways Book 2 has been called a feminist novel. But, how is this series known as a feminist novel? To get the answer to this question, readers should go through this amazing novel by Sir Meredith!
Download or read book Diana of the Crossways a Novel by George Meredith written by George Meredith and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diana of the Crossways written by George Meredith and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1979 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana of the Crossways examines the unhappy marriage of the title character Diana Warwick and is loosely based on events in the life of Caroline Norton (playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan's granddaughter), who was suspected of revealing an important political secret that she had acquired from her lover. Although Meredith was forced to attach a disclaimer to the novel, his story is less about political scandal than about his protagonist's inner life and motives. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature.
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Download or read book Diana of the Crossways a Novel written by George Meredith and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Diana of the Crossways Complete written by George Meredith and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Meredith was both a novelist and poet. Born in Portsmouth, England , his work is used as a classic example of Victorian literature.
Download or read book Dubliners written by James Joyce and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This group of fifteen brief narratives connected by a place and a time—the city of Dublin at the beginning of the twentieth century—was written when James Joyce was a precocious young graduate of University College. With great subtlety and artistic restraint, Joyce suggests what lies beneath the pieties of Dublin society and its surface drive for respectability, suggesting the difficulties and despairs that were being endured on a daily basis in the homes, pubs, streets, and offices of the city: underemployment, domestic violence, alcoholism, poverty, hunger, emotional and sexual repression. No writer ever took more seriously the details, history, and culture of a particular place than Joyce did with his home city, and these stories combine dark humor with compassion and a searching eye for the causes of suffering. This new edition’s historical appendices include contemporary reviews (among them one by Ezra Pound) and materials on religion, the struggle for Irish independence, and Dublin’s musical and performance culture.
Download or read book Problem Novels written by Anna Maria Jones and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Problem Novels, Anna Maria Jones argues that, far from participating "invisibly" in disciplinary regimes, many Victorian novels articulate sophisticated theories about the role of the novel in the formation of the self. In fact, it is rare to find a Victorian novel in which questions about the danger or utility of novel reading are not embedded within the narrative. In other words, one of the stories that the Victorian novel tells, over and over again, is the story of what novels do to readers. This story occurs in moments that call attention to the reader's engagement with the text." "In chapters on Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, and George Meredith, Jones examines "problem novels" - that is, novels that both narrate and invite problematic reading as part of their theorizing of cultural production. Problem Novels demonstrates that these works posit a culturally embedded, sensationally susceptible reader and, at the same time, present a methodology for critical engagement with cultural texts. Thus, the novels theorize, paradoxically, a reader who is both unconsciously interpellated and critically empowered. And, Jones argues, it is this paradoxical construction of the unconscious/critical subject that re-emerges in the theoretical paradigms of Victorian cultural studies scholarship. Indeed, as Problem Novels shows, Victorianists' attachments to critical "detective work" closely resemble the sensational attachments that we assume shaped Victorian novel readers."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Mistress of the House written by Tim Dolin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of gender and property ownership in eight important novels argues that property is a decisive undercurrent in narrative structures and modes, as well as an important gender signature in society and culture. Tim Dolin suggests that the formal development of nineteenth-century domestic fiction can only be understood in the context of changes in the theory and laws of property: indeed femininity and its representation cannot be considered separately from property relations and their reform. He presents original readings of novels in which a woman owns, acquires or loses property, focusing on exchanges between patriarchal cultural authority, the 'woman question' and narrative form, and on the place of domestic fiction in a culture in which property relations and gender relations are subject to radical review. Each chapter revolves around a representative text, but refers substantially to other material, both other novels and contemporary social, legal, political and feminist commentary.
Download or read book Nineteenth Century British Novelists on the Novel written by George L. Barnett and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
