GEORGE MEREDITH in his letters, January 1860

Meredith (1828-1909), novelist and poet, was at work on Evan Harrington (serialized during 1860) when he read the early portions of The Woman in White and wrote the letters quoted from. Only six instalments of Collins’s novel had appeared at this time. Text from The Letters of George Meredith, ed. C.L.Cline (1970), I, 51-2.