Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1
1885
In Victorian England, Diana Warwick is a woman born into an era that demands she be ornamental, not operative. Beautiful, brilliant, and dangerously sincere, she finds herself imprisoned in a marriage to a cold, ambitious man who sees her only as a political asset. When she attempts to advance his career through her friendship with a powerful Cabinet minister, she unleashes a scandal that exposes the cruel mathematics of female reputation. Meredith, himself a Nobel nominee seven times over, paints a devastating portrait of a society that celebrates women's charm while punishing their agency. The political machinations around the Corn Laws and Robert Peel's troubled administration provide the backdrop for Diana's personal unraveling. This is a novel about the violence of gossip, the impossibility of women living authentically in a world designed to contain them, and the high cost of refusing to be passive. Over a century later, Diana's voice still cuts through the noise: 'I have the misfortune to know I was born an active.'
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— George Meredith
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