Evan Harrington by George Meredith

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InTheDesert
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Evan Harrington is an 1861 novel by George Meredith, a glowing comedy of Victorian presumptions.

The second of Meredith's 'mainstream' novels, the work is loosely autobiographical in inspiration; and concerns the social climbing family (three married daughters; one unmarried son) of the recently deceased tailor, Melchisedec (The Great Mel) Harrington.

Two of Meredith's most notable comic creations - The Great Mel and his daughter Louisa, the scheming Countess of Saldar - appear in the book. Among lesser comic figures are Jack Raikes and Mr Parsley.

The love interest of the hero, Evan - who is urged up the social ladder by his three sisters - is Rose Jocelyn: she was taken as the epitome of mid-Victorian womanhood by the scholar Henry Sidgwick.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4434
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Harrington
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