Diana of the Crossways / by George Meredith ; introduction by Arthur Symons.

New York : Modern Library, [between 1940 and 1962?]

xvi, 447 pages ; 19 cm.

BEIN Tanselle Z41 0071: With dust jacket, circa 1952 (based on list of titles printed inside jacket). Bookplate of George Thomas Tanselle. Publisher's advertisements (list of Modern Library titles) on 6 unnumbered pages at end, not noted in extent.

Diana of the Crossways is a novel by George Meredith which was published in 1885. It is an account of an intelligent and forceful woman trapped in a miserable marriage and was prompted by Meredith's friendship with society beauty and author Caroline Norton. Diana of the Crossways illustrates a Victorian woman in the process of change as she attempts independence. The problems she faces offer a distinct departure from the treatment of conventional heroines of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Meredith understood and wrote about the conflicts women faced so well that Diana of the Crossways depicts the struggles that led to a new feminism. Diana of the Crossways is a central text for the study of nineteenth-century representation of women and the Victorian women's rights movement. Students and scholars of nineteenth-century British literature, women's studies, and cultural studies will find this novel with its invaluable introduction a must read in understanding women during the Victorian era.

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