Illustration of Diana, in Meredith's "Diana of the Crossways," by Herbert Bedford

Diana Warwick

Herbert Bedford (1867-1945)

First published 1914

Reproduction of a miniature painting on ivory

Source: Bedford 129

Bedford depicts Diana Warwick, in George Meredith's Diana of the Crossways (1885), as rather more mature, intelligent and cultivated than his earlier heroines, as well as beautiful; yet there is a touch of yearning in her pose and look. A. J. Hammerton comments on her "dark hair and dignified mien," finding them "curiously suggestive both of the fact [i.e. the real-life Caroline Norton] and the fiction of that character" (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