Published in 1885 and immediately popular, Diana of the Crossways was Meredith's first successful novel. It tells the story of a beautiful, witty, and headstrong Irish woman, Diana, who is trapped in an unhappy and loveless marriage. Fashionable London is scandalized when Diana leaves her husband for another man, is accused of adultery, and becomes enmeshed in the political and social issues of the day.
"Published in 1885 and immediately popular, Diana of the Crossways was Meredith's first successful novel. It tells the story of a beautiful, witty, and headstrong Irish woman, Diana, who is trapped in an unhappy and loveless marriage. Fashionable London is scandalized when Diana leaves her husband for another man, is accused of adultery, and becomes enmeshed in the political and social issues of the day."
"Published in 1885 and immediately popular, Diana of the Crossways was Meredith's first successful novel. It tells the story of a beautiful, witty, and headstrong Irish woman, Diana, who is trapped in an unhappy and loveless marriage. Fashionable London is scandalized when Diana leaves her husband for another man, is accused of adultery, and becomes enmeshed in the political and social issues of the day."@en
"Diana of the Crossways retells a tale that may well have been true: Although Meredith was forced to attach a disclaimer to the novel, it was no secret when he wrote the book that he was writing about the life of Caroline Norton, granddaughter of playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Unhappily married, the woman ("Diana"), takes a lover -- and becomes suspect when someone reveals an important political secret that she, as lover, was party to. A compelling study of a woman and her times."@en
"Diana of the Crossways examines the unhappy marriage of the title character Diana Warwick and is loosely based on events in the life of [Victorian feminist] Caroline Norton (playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan's granddaughter), who was suspected of revealing an important political secret that she had acquired from her lover. Although Meredith was forced to attach a disclaimer to the novel, his story is less about political scandal than about his protagonist's inner life and motives, [which he treats sympathetically]. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature."@en
"Diana of the Crossways examines the unhappy marriage of the title character Diana Warwick and is loosely based on events in the life of Caroline Norton (playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan's granddaughter), who was suspected of revealing an important political secret that she had acquired from her lover. Although Meredith was forced to attach a disclaimer to the novel, his story is less about political scandal than about his protagonist's inner life and motives. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature."@en
"The story of a woman of genius based on the life of Caroline Norton."@en
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