. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. as written at Weybridge with duns at the door. He wasalso conceiving Richard Feverel, but both works werecompleted elsewhere. It is interesting to note, inconfirmation of the fact that Meredith was reallycontemporary with, and one of the band of, the greatVictorian writers, that in this same year, 1852-1853,which saw the dawn of these two masterpieces,appeared Dickenss Bleak House, ThackeraysEsmond and The Newcomes, Kingsleys Hypatia,Charlotte Brontes Villette, Lyttons My Novel, MrsGaskells Cranford, and novels by the lesser ligh
. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. as written at Weybridge with duns at the door. He wasalso conceiving Richard Feverel, but both works werecompleted elsewhere. It is interesting to note, inconfirmation of the fact that Meredith was reallycontemporary with, and one of the band of, the greatVictorian writers, that in this same year, 1852-1853,which saw the dawn of these two masterpieces,appeared Dickenss Bleak House, ThackeraysEsmond and The Newcomes, Kingsleys Hypatia,Charlotte Brontes Villette, Lyttons My Novel, MrsGaskells Cranford, and novels by the lesser lights,Charles Lever, Harrison Ainsworth, G. P. R. James,Frank Smedley, and Surtees, Browning andTennyson, too, were producing fine poetry, so youngMeredith had a noble band of rivals in the field ofliterary endeavour. In 1853 he and his wife removed from Weybridgeto the opposite side of the river, Lower Halliford, tolive, for a time, with Mrs Merediths father, ThomasLove Peacock, whose wife, Jane Gryffydh, had diedthe previous year. Peacock was now sixty-eight 76. Thomas Lovk Ieacock THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 77 years of age, with the most important events of hislife behind him. His earlier years he had passed inliterary dalliance, and his famous friendship withShelley commenced in 1812. He accompanied thepoet and Harriet to Edinburgh in 1813 ; and whenShelley was at Windsor and Marlow, where alsoPeacock was then living, in 1816, the two men wereconstantly together. To Peacock, Shelleys fineletters from Italy were addressed, and it was thisfriend who endeavoured to bring about the pro-duction of The Cenci at Covent Garden first of the delightful series of Peacocks novels,Headlong Hall, appeared in 1816, and the last, GryllGrange, in 1860. Those known to Shelley weremuch admired by him, including Nightmare Abbey,wherein he was amusingly satirised; possibly theauthor depicted himself as Mr dowry, for that very consolate widower held that there wasbut one good thing in the worl
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