Novelist and poet, educated privately, Meredith published his first great novel, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel in 1859. He worked regularly for Ipswich Journal from 1859-75 and published his novel, Evan Harrington, serially in 1860, followed by Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside in 1862, Emilia in England (later renamed Sandra Belloni) in 1864, Rhoda Fleming in 1865, and Vittoria, a sequel to Emilia, in 1866.
He wrote as special correspondent for the Morning Post in Italy during the war with Austria in 1866.
Despite his frequent and popular publications that continued throughout the 1870s and 80s, critics showed little interest until the publication of Diana at the Crossways in 1885, followed by Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life in 1887, A Reading of Earth in 1888, and One of Our Conquerors in 1891, followed by Lord Ormont and his Aminta in 1894, and The Amazing Marriage, begun serially in 1879 and finished in 1895 (9).
Meredith, George.
Jump-to-Glory Jane: A Poem.
No publisher's name stated, 1889.
16 pages of handmade paper watermarked "J.D. & Co." Note on verso title-page states that 50 copies only were Privately printed for friends.
In 1892 the author had never seen the booklet, only heard of it. He wrote: "Of course it is piratical; whether issued by a lunatic or a profoundly speculative Yankee, I cannot decide."
