The Adventures Of Harry Richmon [Paperback]

Meredith collected his early writings, first published in periodicals, in an 1851 volume, Poems. In 1856 he posed as the model for The Death of Chatterton, a notable painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis (18301916).[3] His wife ran off with Wallis in 1858; she died three years later. The collection of sonnets entitled Modern Love (1862) emerged from this experience as did The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, his first major novel