Diana of the Crossways
- First published
- 1885
- Pages
- 410
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Chapter 1: Of Diaries and Diarists Touching the Heroine
37:12 -
Chapter 2: An Irish Ball
26:05 -
Chapter 3: The Interior of Mr. Redworth, and the Exterior of Mr. Sullivan Smith
18:16 -
Chapter 4: Containing Hints of Diana's Experiences and of what They Led to
31:16 -
Chapter 5: Concerning the Scrupulous Gentleman who Came Too Late
22:36 -
Chapter 6: The Couple
20:42 -
Chapter 7: The Crisis
20:55 -
Chapter 8: In which is Exhibited How a Practical Man and a Divining Woman Learn to Respect One Another
33:54 -
Chapter 9: Shows How a Position of Delicacy for a Lady and Gentleman was Met in Simple Fashion Without Hurt to Either
20:51 -
Chapter 10: The Conflict of the Night
11:00 -
Chapter 11: Recounts the Journey in a Chariot, with a Certain Amount of Dialogue, and a Small Incident on the Road
16:35 -
Chapter 12: Between Emma and Diana
15:03 -
Chapter 13: Touching the First Days of Her Probation
22:10 -
Chapter 14: Giving Glimpses of Diana Under Her Cloud Before the World and of Her Further Apprenticeship
33:39 -
Chapter 15: Introduces the Hon. Percy Dacier
28:26 -
Chapter 16: Treats of a Midnight Bell, and of a Scene of Early Morning
35:02 -
Chapter 17: 'The Princess Egeria'
25:37 -
Chapter 18: The Authoress
21:00 -
Chapter 19: A Drive in Sunlight and a Drive in Moonlight
26:06 -
Chapter 20: Diana a Night-Watch in the Chamber of Death
19:36 -
Chapter 21: 'The Young Minister of State'
25:17 -
Chapter 22: Between Diana and Dacier: The Wind East Over Bleak Land
18:07 -
Chapter 23: Records a Visit to Diana from One of the World’s Good Women
20:25 -
Chapter 24: Indicates a Soul Prepared for Desperation
15:25 -
Chapter 25: Once More the Crossways and a Change of Turnings
19:42 -
Chapter 26: In which a Disappointed Lover Receives a Multitude of Lessons
27:35 -
Chapter 27: Contains Matter for Subsequent Explosion
36:27 -
Chapter 28: Dialogue Round the Subject of a Portrait, with Some Indications of the Task for Diana
30:59 -
Chapter 29: Shows the Approaches of the Political and the Domestic Crisis in Company
34:10 -
Chapter 30: In which There is a Taste of a Little Dinner and an Aftertaste
20:29 -
Chapter 31: A Chapter Containing Great Political News and Therewith an Intrusion of the Love-God
11:29 -
Chapter 32: Wherein We Behold a Giddy Turn at the Spectral Crossways
14:03 -
Chapter 33: Exhibits the Springing of a Mine in a Newspaper Article
15:32 -
Chapter 34: In which it is Darkly Seen How the Criminal's Judge May Be Love's Criminal
17:34 -
Chapter 35: Reveals How the True Heroine of Romance Comes Finally to Her, Time of Triumph
21:53 -
Chapter 36: Is Conclusive as to the Heartlessness of Women with Brains
21:02 -
Chapter 37: An Exhibition of Some Champions of the Stricken Lady
22:31 -
Chapter 38: Convalescence of a Healthy Mind Distraught
14:41 -
Chapter 39: Of Nature with One of Her Cultivated Daughters and a Short Excursion in Anti-Climax
30:07 -
Chapter 40: In which We See Nature Making of a Woman a Maid Again, and a Thrice Whimsical
25:56 -
Chapter 41: Contains a Revelation of the Origin of the Tigress in Diana
18:42 -
Chapter 42: The Penultimate: Showing a Final Struggle for Liberty and Run into Harness
24:42 -
Chapter 43: Nuptial Chapter; and of How a Barely Willing Woman was Led to Bloom with the Nuptial Sentiment
32:27
Diana of the Crossways (1885) is a public domain work.
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Loosely based on the writer and reformer Caroline Norton, this novel follows Diana Warwick, an Irishwoman as brilliant in conversation as she is unlucky in marriage. Trapped in a loveless match, she turns to novel-writing to support herself and drifts into the dangerous currents of London politics and gossip. When she is accused of betraying a statesman's confidence to a newspaper, her reputation and her livelihood hang in the balance. Meredith writes Diana as a fully thinking woman, prized for her mind rather than pitied for her plight, and his prose crackles with epigram and irony. The book helped cement his reputation and remains a sharp study of a woman fighting to define herself. Free to read as a PDF and EPUB edition.
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Book facts
- Author
- George Meredith
- First published
- 1885
- Reading time
- About 11 hours
- Pages
- 410
- Language
- English
- Genre
- British Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
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