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A novel by [[George Meredith]], published in 1885. This compelling account of an intelligent and forceful woman trapped in a miserable marriage was prompted by Meredith's friendship with [[Caroline Norton]]. The heroine Diana Warwick says: 'we women are the verbs passive of the alliance, we have to learn, and if we take to activity, with the best intentions, we conjugate a frightful disturbance. We are to run on lines, like the steam-trains, or we come to no station, dash to fragments. I have the misfortune to know I was born an active. I take my chance.' Alienated from her husband Augustus, Diana begins a relationship with the dashing Lord Dannisburgh, which leads to a legal accusation of adultery. Diana, passionate and intelligent but hotheaded, becomes inbroiled in a political as well as a social scandal (the politics is modelled on the troubled history of [[Robert Peel]]'s administration, and the 1845 [[Corn Laws]] in particular. Eventually Diana achieves a sort of freedom, thanks to the timely death of her husband Warwick, which leaves her free to marry another and kinder man, Redworth, who has always loved and stood-by Diana. |
A novel by [[George Meredith]], published in 1885. This compelling account of an intelligent and forceful woman trapped in a miserable marriage was prompted by Meredith's friendship with [[Caroline Norton]]. The heroine Diana Warwick says: 'we women are the verbs passive of the alliance, we have to learn, and if we take to activity, with the best intentions, we conjugate a frightful disturbance. We are to run on lines, like the steam-trains, or we come to no station, dash to fragments. I have the misfortune to know I was born an active. I take my chance.' Alienated from her husband Augustus, Diana begins a relationship with the dashing Lord Dannisburgh, which leads to a legal accusation of adultery. Diana, passionate and intelligent but hotheaded, becomes inbroiled in a political as well as a social scandal (the politics is modelled on the troubled history of [[Robert Peel]]'s administration, and the 1845 [[Corn Laws]] in particular. Eventually Diana achieves a sort of freedom, thanks to the timely death of her husband Warwick, which leaves her free to marry another and kinder man, Redworth, who has always loved and stood-by Diana. |
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A novel by George Meredith, published in 1885. This compelling account of an intelligent and forceful woman trapped in a miserable marriage was prompted by Meredith's friendship with Caroline Norton. The heroine Diana Warwick says: 'we women are the verbs passive of the alliance, we have to learn, and if we take to activity, with the best intentions, we conjugate a frightful disturbance. We are to run on lines, like the steam-trains, or we come to no station, dash to fragments. I have the misfortune to know I was born an active. I take my chance.' Alienated from her husband Augustus, Diana begins a relationship with the dashing Lord Dannisburgh, which leads to a legal accusation of adultery. Diana, passionate and intelligent but hotheaded, becomes inbroiled in a political as well as a social scandal (the politics is modelled on the troubled history of Robert Peel's administration, and the 1845 Corn Laws in particular. Eventually Diana achieves a sort of freedom, thanks to the timely death of her husband Warwick, which leaves her free to marry another and kinder man, Redworth, who has always loved and stood-by Diana.