GEORGE MEREDITH Victorian Author Signed Letter & SAMUEL HOLLYER Signed Engraving

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GEORGE MEREDITH Victorian Author Signed Letter & SAMUEL HOLLYER Signed Engraving:
$199.00

Letter written and signed by Victorian author / poet: George Meredith (English, 1828-1909)
And an engraving of George Meredith signed in pencil by Samuel Hollyer (1826-1919)Letter size: approximately 7 x 4 inches.Engraving size:approximately 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches.Total framed size: 11 1/4 x 14 inches
Letter is dated 1889 at top.Engraving is signed in pencil lower right.
Provenance: Estate, Los Angeles, California
Condition:Both items looks to be inverygood condition. Please see photos.
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George Meredith was an English novelist and poet during the Victorian era. He read law and was articled as a solicitor, but abandoned that profession for journalism and poetry shortly after marrying Mary Ellen Nicolls, a widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, in 1849. He was twenty-one years old; she was thirty.He collected his early writings, first published in periodicals, intoPoems, which was published to some acclaim in 1851. His wife left him and their five-year old son in 1858; she died three years later. Her departure was the inspiration forThe Ordeal of Richard Feverel(1859), his first \"major novel.\" It was considered a breakthrough novel, but its sexual frankness caused a scandal and prevented it from being widely read. Little known fact: George Meredith served as the model for the iconic painting The Death ofChatterton by Pre-Raphaelite artist Henry Wallis.