TY - BOOK AU - George Meredith AU - George Meredith TI - Diana of the Crossways, SN - 9781354284322 U1 - 828 MER PY - 1931/// CY - New York PB - :Modern library KW - Literature KW - ;English fiction N2 - 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 ER -