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“ The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton. More importantly, the novel follows Clara's attempts to escape from her engagement to Sir Willoughby, who desires women to serve as a mirror for him and consequently cannot understand why she would not want to marry him. Thus, The Egoist dramatises the difficulty contingent upon being a woman in Victorian society, when women's bodies and minds are trafficked between fathers and husbands to cement male bonds.”
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Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1684
LibriVox: https://librivox.org/the-egoist-by-ge...
YouTube (Most of which is taken from LibriVox): https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA... https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA...
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Week I: Prelude & Ch. 1-7 : July 11-17
Week 2: Ch. 8-14 : July 18-24
Week III: Ch. 15-21 : July 25-31
Week IV: Ch. 22-28 : August 1-7
Week V: Ch. 29-35 : August 8-14
Week VI: Ch. 36-42 : August 15-21
Week VII: Ch. 43-50 : August 22-28
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“ The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laet..."
This sounds fascinating! I'm looking forward to it.
I don't think I've ever read any George Meredith so this is all excitingly new to me. His biography is full of promise of a very interesting novel writer, I liked the description of his education:Tolerant religious instruction was combined with humanism: the boys were taught to think for themselves, to respect truth, to admire courage, to love nature, and to live in peace and amity with their fellows.
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I've read a couple of works by Meredith and enjoyed them. He has a wicked sense of humour, at least I think so.
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In February 1877, George Meredith gave a lecture known as An Essay on Comedy which was published later that year as “The Idea of Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit” in the New Quarterly Magazine.
The Egoist was written according to the ideals put forward in this essay and is free to read through the Gutenberg Project...
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1219/...
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There’s a very famous Pre-Raphaelite painting for which George Meredith posed as a young man. I am posting a few links below to the painting and the story behind it.
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A few from the Victorian Web by Mike Hickox...
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There’s even a biography of Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd...
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Renee wrote: "The Death of Chatterton There’s a very famous Pre-Raphaelite painting for which George Meredith posed as a young man. I am posting a few links below to the painting and the story behind it."
Thank you, Renee. This is extremely interesting.
Renee wrote: "The Death of Chatterton There’s a very famous Pre-Raphaelite painting for which George Meredith posed as a young man. I am posting a few links below to the painting and the story behind it.
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I have looked at that painting many times, I never knew George Meredith was the model, I'll definitely read more about it.
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Renee wrote: "Good to know, Rosemarie. I’ve just discovered what seems to be a pretty famous lecture/essay on the topic of comedy and it’s uses. In February 1877, George Meredith gave a lecture known as An Ess..."
Thank you for this. I have joined rather late in this discussion, and it is great to see the additional material being offered.
I hope that I haven't come in too late, shall read quickly ,a nd try to make a contribution.
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From Wikipedia...
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom was a movement to fight for women's right to vote. It finally succeeded through laws in 1918 and 1928. It became a national movement in the Victorian era. Women were not explicitly banned from voting in Great Britain until the Reform Act 1832 and the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. In 1872 the fight for women's suffrage became a national movement with the formation of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and later the more influential National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). As well as in England, women's suffrage movements in Wales, Scotland and other parts of the United Kingdom gained momentum.
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The Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the 1832 Reform Act, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced major changes to the electoral system of England and Wales. It abolished tiny districts, gave representation to cities, gave the vote to small landowners, tenant farmers, shopkeepers, householders who paid a yearly rental of £10 or more, and some lodgers. Only qualifying men were able to vote; the Act introduced the first explicit statutory bar to women voting, by defining a voter as a male person.[1]
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Week I: Prelude (optional) & Ch. 1-7 : July 11-17
Week 2: Ch. 8-14 : July 18-24
Week III: Ch. 15-21 : July 25-31
Week IV: Ch. 22-28 : August 1-7
Week V: Ch. 29-35 : August 8-14
Week VI: Ch. 36-42 : August 15-21
Week VII: Ch. 43-50 : August 22-28
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