. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. our affection for me. Yourlast bunch of violets is deliciously scenting myprison house. Always your L. Stephen. Thus passed the original of Vernon decline of Merediths own health dated fromthe arduous work, day and night, which he forcedupon himself in order to finish The Egoist visit to France in the late summer of 1879 didnot re-establish his health. He left his family inNormandy, and crossed Touraine and the Cevennescountry to Nimes, and so to Marseilles and Bordi-ghera, before proceeding to Dauphine. He
. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. our affection for me. Yourlast bunch of violets is deliciously scenting myprison house. Always your L. Stephen. Thus passed the original of Vernon decline of Merediths own health dated fromthe arduous work, day and night, which he forcedupon himself in order to finish The Egoist visit to France in the late summer of 1879 didnot re-establish his health. He left his family inNormandy, and crossed Touraine and the Cevennescountry to Nimes, and so to Marseilles and Bordi-ghera, before proceeding to Dauphine. He cameback to England, and his mental and bodily statewere not improved by the atmospheric conditionswhich greeted him. It was one of the sad perversities of Meredithslife that the same cause. The Egoist, which broughtto him success and appreciation should have sownthe seeds of illness that was fated in his latter yearsto develop into chronic invalidism, and therebyrob him of what he loved best in life, the powerof walking far in the English country-side and of. Leslie Stephen. T HE ORIGINAL OF VEK^ON WlIITFOKI) IN The Egoist Prom a contempomrv tJwtosrafh THE TRAGIC COMEDIANS 267 mountain-rambling in the Alps. His complaint wasbradypepsy engendered by the nervous excitementof prolonged literary composition. By the end of1881 his spine was affected, and he began to losethe power of walking. Despite his affected health, Meredith set to workupon The Tragic Comedians in the year followingthat of The Egoist, and arduous work too. Hecompleted his term of slavery within the specifiedsix months, for The Tragic Comedians—a. short bookfor Meredith, it is true—was published in December,1880, after the story had commenced an abbreviatedserial appearance in The Fortnightly Review inOctober.! As usual, he felt dubious as to itsreception. It is scarcely necessary to say that The TragicComedians is based on the amazing history ofFerdinand Lassalle and Helene von Donniges—oneof the great l
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