. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. redith, changed the number to 8in his memoir of Meredith in The Dictionary of National Biography. ^ It was probably during this period that Meredith and Arthur alsovisited Lynmouth, for Mr F. B. Harwell recollects meeting the twothere about the year 1859. He had previously met Meredith, about1855, at the table of Mrs Edward Chapman. Mr Barwell states : Iwas staying in lodgings at Lynmouth. Meredith and his boy came tostay there, and he and one or two other men often spent an eveningtogether at my rooms, and his conversation was v
. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. redith, changed the number to 8in his memoir of Meredith in The Dictionary of National Biography. ^ It was probably during this period that Meredith and Arthur alsovisited Lynmouth, for Mr F. B. Harwell recollects meeting the twothere about the year 1859. He had previously met Meredith, about1855, at the table of Mrs Edward Chapman. Mr Barwell states : Iwas staying in lodgings at Lynmouth. Meredith and his boy came tostay there, and he and one or two other men often spent an eveningtogether at my rooms, and his conversation was very amusing andoften witty. Meredith had his boy with him at Ljmmouth but nonurse, for he considered that a good lad who could wash and dressthe child was better than a woman. He was himself devoted to thelittle fellow, whom I often saw with his boy-nurse. Many years laterI went to see Meredith near Dorking. I asked him which of his booksI should recommend to a young Russian who knew a good deal ofour literature, and he said The Egoist as the best specimen. 94. Arthur Meredith anji his step-sister, Edith (Mrs. Clarke) RICHARD FEVEREL 95 The Times gave a three-column review.^ In thisbook, of course, Meredith first found himself. Hisprevious essays in fantasy and the supernatural nothaving proved popular and financial successes—forin those days he was compelled to remember he waswriting for a living—he turned to a deeper seam inhis mental equipment, and produced the first of hisphilosophic novels, wherein the study of characterand actions predominated over incident and ad-venture, which had been the bases, combined withsome allegoric intention, of The Shaving of Shagpatand Farina, Richard Feverel had some notablecontemporaries, for this year, 1859, also witnessedthe first appearance of A Tale of Two Cities, AdamBede, Idylls of the King, and The Virginians—amemorable year in the history of English in many of Merediths stories, one can tracp-someautobiog
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