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Meredith’s family gave him an unorthodox upbringing. He was the son of a naval tailor in Portsmouth, and was educated at a Moravian school in Neuwied, Germany. For a time he worked as a solicitor in London, and in 1849 married the widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock. His early married years were not particularly happy and in 1857 his wife left him for the artist Henry Wallis: Meredith had sat as his model for ‘The Death of Chatterton’.
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Martin, B. (1989). George Meredith. In: Martin, B. (eds) The Nineteenth Century (1798–1900). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20159-4_47
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