Diana of the Crossways
Subtitle: a novel
By: by George Meredith.
Edition: Revised ed.
Series: [The works of George Meredith. The Boxhill edition]
Publisher: S. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1897
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Description: Diana of the Crossways examines the unhappy marriage of the title character Diana Warwick and is loosely based on events in the life of [Victorian feminist] Caroline Norton (playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan's granddaughter), who was suspected of revealing an important political secret that she had acquired from her lover. Although Meredith was forced to attach a disclaimer to the novel, his story is less about political scandal than about his protagonist's inner life and motives, [which he treats sympathetically]. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature.