01165nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801020007608200120017810000200019024500460021026000400025630000290029636500090032552005810033465000150091565000210093070000200095120201019104658.0200313b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a9781354284322 aTechnical Bureau India Private Limitedb;E/261, Shastri Nagar, Delhi-110052c;TB2531d;10/03/2020 a828 MER aGeorge Meredith aDiana of the Crossways,c/George Meredith aNew Yorkb:Modern library c,, 1931 axvi, 447 pages c;17 cm. b2116 a 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. aLiterature a;English fiction aGeorge Meredith