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The Female Tradition
A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing by Elaine
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Review by: Ruth Yeazell
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Spring, 1978), pp. 281-285
Published by: Duke University Press
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George Stevenson.... It was chiefly a by-letter relationship, but they visited each other too....
Despite the bad writing, Meredith's rather unpleasant personality still manages to come through to us. We see his meanness (in both senses of the word; just one example was his unwillingnessto pay Arthur'sschool bills, never very high). We see him refusing to attend the funeral of his first wife, the funeral of his father, the funeral of his sonalways on the excuse of failing health (he lived to be 81). We see him, a professed
Radical, writing a weekly column for a Tory newspaper for money, reading to an old lady every week for money, indeed performingany task he could for money: "Meredith was preparedto do anything in the literary line provided he was paid for it," Williams says. Meredithtook no interest in his son Will until he was about to marry an heiress
A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing by Elaine
Showalter
Review by: Ruth Yeazell
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Spring, 1978), pp. 281-285
Published by: Duke University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1344968 .
Accessed: 15/02/2015 09:17
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REVIEWS THE FEMALE TRADITION
281
George Stevenson.... It was chiefly a by-letter relationship, but they visited each other too....
Despite the bad writing, Meredith's rather unpleasant personality still manages to come through to us. We see his meanness (in both senses of the word; just one example was his unwillingnessto pay Arthur'sschool bills, never very high). We see him refusing to attend the funeral of his first wife, the funeral of his father, the funeral of his sonalways on the excuse of failing health (he lived to be 81). We see him, a professed
Radical, writing a weekly column for a Tory newspaper for money, reading to an old lady every week for money, indeed performingany task he could for money: "Meredith was preparedto do anything in the literary line provided he was paid for it," Williams says. Meredithtook no interest in his son Will until he was about to marry an heiress