Illustration of Rose Jocelyn, in Meredith's "Evan Harrington," by Herbert Bedford

Rose Jocelyn

Herbert Bedford (1867-1945)

First published 1914

Reproduction of a miniature painting on ivory

Source: Bedford 68

Bedford depicts Rosa Jocelyn, the heroine of George Meredith's Evan Harrington (1860), with just the right amount of spirit here. A. J. Hammerton finds the likeness of her "as successful as [Charles] Keene's is stodgy and ungraceful" (381).

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Bibliography

Bedford, Herbert. The Heroines of George Meredith. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. Internet Archive, from a book in the University of California Libraries. Web. 20 April 2023.

Hammerton, J. A. (Sir). George Meredith in Anecdote and Criticism. London: Grant Richards; New York: M. Kennerley, 1909. Internet Archive, from a book in the New York Public Library. Web. 20 April 2023.

Created 20 April 2023