It’s the birthday of Victorian author George Meredith (1828-1909), known for some brilliant works no one reads anymore, such as The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) and The Egoist (1879), for helping pioneer the psychological novel, and for creating strong female characters treated by their author as true equals. Meredith was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, [...]
It’s the birthday of Victorian author Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), whose novel The Moonstone (1868) is considered by some to be the greatest English detective story ever written and whose popularity in his day was exceeded only by that of Charles Dickens. If you google Collins’ image, you will see that he has the high, prominent, [...]
It’s the birthday of one of the great Victorian novelists, George Eliot (a.k.a. Mary Ann Cross Evans, 1819-1880), known for brilliant novels such as Silas Marner (1861) and Middlemarch (1871-72), but whose birthday this year falls on Thanksgiving and therefore will not receive the attention that is her due. But for goodness’ sake, if you [...]