The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son is the earliest full-length novel by George Meredith, published in 1859; its subject is the inability of systems of education to control huma
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Henry Wallis was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter, writer and collector. He is best known for his 1856 painting The Death of Chatterton.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
…wounded. Lucy is so overcome by this turn of events that she loses her mind and dies. In 1856 George Meredith's wife Mary began an affair with the artist Henry Wallis. In the following year, pregnant by Wallis, she ran away to join him, leaving her son Arthur behind. Meredith undertook to bring the child up. The…
Henry Wallis
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The Death of Chatterton (1856)
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