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Diana of the Crossways
by George MEREDITH (1828 - 1909)Chapter 18: The Authoress
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
Listen next episodes of Diana of the Crossways:
Chapter 19: A Drive in Sunlight and a Drive in Moonlight , 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 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 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