Meredith
Meredith names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Meredith GEORGE, an English poet and novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE, an English poet and novelist; born in Hampshire, England, in 1828. He was educated in Germany; studied law, but essayed a literary career with a volume of poems in 1851. This was followed by the "Shaving of S Shagpat" (1855); "Farina, a Legend of Cologne" (1857); "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel" (1859); "Evan_Harrington" (1861); "Modern Love: Poems and Ballads" (1862); "Emilia in England" (1864); "Rhoda Fleming" (1865); "Victoria" (1866); "Adventures of Harry Richmond" (1871); "The Egoist" (1879); The Tragic Comedians" (1881); "Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth" (1883); "Diana of the Crossways" (1885); "Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life" (1887); "One of our Conquerors" (1891); "Lord Ormont and his Aminta" (1894); "The Amazing Marriage" (1895); "Odes in Commemoration of the History of France" (1898); etc. He died May 18, . 1909
Meredith EDWIN THOMAS, editor and publisher of Des Moines
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWIN THOMAS, editor and publisher of Des Moines, Ia.; born in 1876 and educated at Highland Park College, Des Moines, From 1896- 1902 he was editor and publisher of the "Farmers' Tribune." Through this and other publications he has exerted considerable influence over the farmers of Iowa and the Middle West. In 1913 President Wilson appointed him a director of the Federal Reserve Bank and in 1914 he was the Democratic candidate for United States senator. In 1920 President Wilson appointed Meredith Secretary of Agriculture to succeed Houston, at that time appointed to the Treasury Department. Secretary Meredith has always been a Democrat, and his strong influence among the Western farmers caused him to be mentioned in connection with the Democratic presidential nomination in 1920.
Meredith Owen. See Lytton
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Owen. See Lytton ; Edward Robert Bulwer
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 treated George Meredith as a giant still in living memory — he had died only twelve years earlier, holding the Order of Merit — and listed his novels without comment because readers knew them. Today he is among the most thoroughly dropped of the great Victorians: only "The Egoist" and the sonnet sequence "Modern Love" are much read or taught, and the dense late novels the entry lists have largely gone unread outside university courses. The other Meredith has fared better than his politics suggested: Edwin Thomas Meredith, tipped in 1920 for the Democratic presidential nomination, never won national office and died in 1928, but the publishing house he built in Des Moines grew into the Meredith Corporation, launched "Better Homes and Gardens" in 1922, and became one of America's largest magazine publishers before being absorbed into Dotdash Meredith in 2021. Aiton's cross-reference for "Owen Meredith" still holds — it was the pen name of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, and it is remembered now chiefly by cataloguers.
Written for this edition, 2026.