"Dearest Susie Pye": New Meredith Letters to Peacock's Natural Daughter.
This article provides full details of a recently discovered cache of letters from George Meredith and his first wife Mary Ellen to Susan Mary Abbott (1830-1921), who in 1858 married William Mayne Neill (1824-1913). The first section focuses on the biographical background of the letters, identifying...
| Published in: | Studies in Philology Vol. 111; no. 3; pp. 591 - 630 |
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