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,
“... his own or those of others. His personality, like that of his creations, is of a gaseous nature. Max Beerbohm once wrote a memorable little sketch of a visit to the Sage of Box Hill, and of hearing Meredith’s voice addressing the air as he approached, and recommencing the conversation as he walked away. In mid-century Meredith dazzled his friends and ... ”