Excerpt from A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of George Meredith George Meredith was born at Portsmouth on February 12, 1828. His mother, Jane Eliza Meredith, born Macnamara, died in 1833, and eight years later his father, Augustus Urmston Meredith, married again, and shortly afterwards gave up his Portsmouth business. Nothing further, to my knowledge, is known Of Augustus until we find him in London as a partner in the firm Of Mackie and Meredith, Tailors, Of no. I4 Southampton Row, where, judging from the evidence of directories, he stayed but a short while. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This is the first scholarly edition of an important group of critical writings by Henry James, the Prefaces to his New York Edition (1907–9). It will be of value to James scholars and to scholars and advanced students of 19th- and 20th-century British and American literature and book history.