Beauchamp's Career

George Meredith was a 19th English poet and author. Meredith was a lawyer but shortly abandoned this career for journalism and poetry. Beauchamp's Career (1876) is generally considered to be the first novel of his artistic maturity. Beauchamp's Career portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirizes the Conservative establishment. The character of Beauchamp was drawn from Meredith s friend Frederick Maxes R N. Beauchamp's Career is a study of the conflict in a man between his aristocratic heredity and his passions about the wrongs committed in his democracy. Beauchamp's Career is an election novel written out of the author's own painful experiences. Meredith combines politics, realism and romance in this work.