Such a Husband
John Bayley, 4 September 1997
Selected Letters of George Meredith
edited by Mohammad Shaheen.
Macmillan, 312 pp., £47.50, April 1997,0 333 56349 2 Show More
edited by Mohammad Shaheen.
Macmillan, 312 pp., £47.50, April 1997,
“... The two most interesting letters in this selection are not by Meredith: a fact suggestive of the Meredithian tendency to evade evidence or embodiment of a personal sort, and disappear into the airier world of ideas about him – his own or those of others. His personality, like that of his creations, is of a gaseous nature ... ”