. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. r his favourite haunt, the Black Pool in thewood, that he ended the life of poor Purcell Barrett;and in his penultimate chapter, Frost on the MayNight, gazing from his cottage window he sum-moned his characters ^ for adieu and ranged them,lit by moonhght, in that fair woodland court,with moss and frosted fern for flooring, that borderedThe Movmd, Writers are sometimes aware when they haveachieved good work, and Meredith knew his lastscene in Sandra Belloni was good. He wrote toMaxse, when reminding his friend of the songs ofnight
. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. r his favourite haunt, the Black Pool in thewood, that he ended the life of poor Purcell Barrett;and in his penultimate chapter, Frost on the MayNight, gazing from his cottage window he sum-moned his characters ^ for adieu and ranged them,lit by moonhght, in that fair woodland court,with moss and frosted fern for flooring, that borderedThe Movmd, Writers are sometimes aware when they haveachieved good work, and Meredith knew his lastscene in Sandra Belloni was good. He wrote toMaxse, when reminding his friend of the songs ofnightingales they had heard in the past, to note Frost on the May Night at the end of memory of the scene and of Copsham Woodsremained with Meredith, and thirty years later herecalled again that beautiful experience of thelong ago in his poem, Night of Frost in May. They were very real to him. Hardman relates of Meredithscreations in Sandra Belloni: To him they are evidently hvingbeings, in fact, I know he has felt them as such for the past ^ i X C o ?o p- ? KINGSTON LODGE 183 So the influences of Copsham were lovely andenduring. With the publication of Sandra Belloni coincidedthe turn in the fortunes of Meredith, who now wasmaking quite a comfortable income by his pen. Hewas writing Rhoda Fleming and Vittoria, and plan-ning Harry Richmond; he was writing for TheIpswich Journal still, and for The Morning Post;he was expecting to make new arrangements withChapman and Hall that would secure him a salaryof £250 or £300 a year ; a publisher proposed togive him four figures for a novel. And in fact, ashe put it, he had laid traps for money prosperity continued to increase ; he joined theGarrick Club, and entertained his friends staying at The Cedars, Esher, during theearly part of 1865, the Merediths took lodgings inKingston-on-Thames ; and in the spring they enteredupon a three years lease of Kingston Lodge, Nor-biton, a quaint
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