Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1909 — NOVELIST MEREDITH DEAD [ARTICLE]

NOVELIST MEREDITH DEAD

Author of “Diana of the Crossways’’ Took Cold While Out Driving. London, May 18.—George Meredith the English novelist, died early this morning. Meredith was born in Hampshire. Feb. 12, 1828. His first "poems” ar peared in 1851 and was followed in rapid succession by various novels an ’> additional poems and ballads. "Dian of the Crossways," was published 1 1885.

“Lord Ormont and His Aminta” ap peared in the summer of 1894, and wa followed in 1895 by “The Ainazin Marriage,” which is supposed to intn duce as hero the late Robert Loui Stevenson. Meredith was out for his daily driv at his Boxhill retreat on Saturday ir a little donkey chaise. A keen wind was blowing, and it appears to hav' given him a chill. He returned horn' In a state of collapse.