THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE FIRST MRS. MEREDITH AND OTHER LESSER LIVES
first edition
1973 · London
by JOHNSON, Diane
London: Heinemann, 1973. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 239. Illustrated. A fine copy in clipped and somewhat torn dj. The story of Mary Ellen Peacock, married to the author George Meredith, who left him and their children to live with Henry Wallis, an artist. She herself was a poet, and according to Johnson, Meredith published some of her poems as his own. (Inventory #: 23254)