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Diana of the Crossways

Diana of the Crossways

by George MEREDITH (1828 - 1909)

Inspired by the real life story of Caroline Norton, a friend of the author's, this book tells about a lively woman who is trapped in a miserable marriage. Yet Diana is not one to give up in her quest for love, happiness and fulfillment. - Summary by Stav Nisser


Chapter 1: Of Diaries and Diarists Touching the Heroine

Chapter 10: The Conflict of the Night

Chapter 11: Recounts the Journey in a Chariot, with a Certain Amount of Dialogue, and a Small Incident on the Road

Chapter 12: Between Emma and Diana

Chapter 13: Touching the First Days of Her Probation

Chapter 14: Giving Glimpses of Diana Under Her Cloud Before the World and of Her Further Apprenticeship

Chapter 15: Introduces the Hon. Percy Dacier

Chapter 16: Treats of a Midnight Bell, and of a Scene of Early Morning

Chapter 17: 'The Princess Egeria'

Chapter 18: The Authoress

Chapter 19: A Drive in Sunlight and a Drive in Moonlight

Chapter 2: An Irish Ball

Chapter 20: Diana a Night-Watch in the Chamber of Death

Chapter 21: 'The Young Minister of State'

Chapter 22: Between Diana and Dacier: The Wind East Over Bleak Land

Chapter 23: Records a Visit to Diana from One of the World’s Good Women

Chapter 24: Indicates a Soul Prepared for Desperation

Chapter 25: Once More the Crossways and a Change of Turnings

Chapter 26: In which a Disappointed Lover Receives a Multitude of Lessons

Chapter 27: Contains Matter for Subsequent Explosion

Chapter 28: Dialogue Round the Subject of a Portrait, with Some Indications of the Task for Diana

Chapter 29: Shows the Approaches of the Political and the Domestic Crisis in Company

Chapter 3: The Interior of Mr. Redworth, and the Exterior of Mr. Sullivan Smith

Chapter 30: In which There is a Taste of a Little Dinner and an Aftertaste

Chapter 31: A Chapter Containing Great Political News and Therewith an Intrusion of the Love-God

Chapter 32: Wherein We Behold a Giddy Turn at the Spectral Crossways

Chapter 33: Exhibits the Springing of a Mine in a Newspaper Article

Chapter 34: In which it is Darkly Seen How the Criminal's Judge May Be Love's Criminal

Chapter 35: Reveals How the True Heroine of Romance Comes Finally to Her, Time of Triumph

Chapter 36: Is Conclusive as to the Heartlessness of Women with Brains

Chapter 37: An Exhibition of Some Champions of the Stricken Lady

Chapter 38: Convalescence of a Healthy Mind Distraught

Chapter 39: Of Nature with One of Her Cultivated Daughters and a Short Excursion in Anti-Climax

Chapter 4: Containing Hints of Diana's Experiences and of what They Led to

Chapter 40: In which We See Nature Making of a Woman a Maid Again, and a Thrice Whimsical

Chapter 41: Contains a Revelation of the Origin of the Tigress in Diana

Chapter 42: The Penultimate: Showing a Final Struggle for Liberty and Run into Harness

Chapter 43: Nuptial Chapter; and of How a Barely Willing Woman was Led to Bloom with the Nuptial Sentiment

Chapter 5: Concerning the Scrupulous Gentleman who Came Too Late

Chapter 6: The Couple

Chapter 7: The Crisis

Chapter 8: In which is Exhibited How a Practical Man and a Divining Woman Learn to Respect One Another

Chapter 9: Shows How a Position of Delicacy for a Lady and Gentleman was Met in Simple Fashion Without Hurt to Either