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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

George Meredith (1828-1909) abandoned the legal profession for journalism and poetry after marrying Mary Ellen Nicolls, a widowed daughter of Thomas…

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George Meredith (1828-1909) abandoned the legal profession for journalism and poetry after marrying Mary Ellen Nicolls, a widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock. After his wife ran off with the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis, Mereditch's collection of sonnets entitled "Modern Love" (1862) and his first major novel, "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel," came of this experience.

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  4. 4Chapter 4
  5. 5Chapter 5
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  9. 9Chapter 9
  10. 10Chapter 10
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  44. 44Chapter 44
  45. 45Chapter 45

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