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George Meredith
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George Meredith was a British writer, poet, novelist, and prose writer. Born in Portsmouth in 1828, he died in Dorking in 1909. He was a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom. Meredith wrote in English and was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement.
His notable works include the novel *The egoist*, *Poems*, *The tragic comedians*, *The shaving of Shagpat*, and *Diana of the crossways*. He received the Order of Merit and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His works are held in collections such as the J. Paul Getty Museum. He is described by sources including the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and The Nuttall Encyclopædia.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 12 February 1828
- Died
- 18 May 1909
- Works
- 1125
Top works
- Evan Harrington
- The egoist
- Poems
- The tragic comedians
- The shaving of Shagpat
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- George
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Portsmouth
- Place of death
- Dorking
- Occupation
- prose writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Order of Merit
- Movement
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Image
- Portrait of George Meredith.jpg
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- Commons category
- George Meredith
- date of birth
- 1828-02-12
- date of death
- 1909-05-18
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Commons Creator page
- George Meredith
- name in native language
- George Meredith
- writing language
- English language
- P12749
- Hormersdorf
- has works in the collection
- J. Paul Getty Museum
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Works in European collections
9 objects attributed to George Meredith, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
George Meredith OM (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a reputation as a novelist. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) briefly scandalised Victorian literary circles. Of his later novels, the most enduring is The Egoist (1879), though in his lifetime his greatest success was Diana of the Crossways (1885). His novels were innovative in their attention to characters' psychology, and also portrayed social change. His style, in both poetry and prose, was noted for its syntactic complexity; Oscar Wilde likened it to "chaos illumined by brilliant flashes of lightning". Meredith was an encourager of other novelists, as well as an influence on them; among those to benefit were Robert Louis Stevenson and George Gissing. Meredith was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.
Life
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