Veranilda

This, of course, was the book published after his death, Veranilda.

The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912

Still there are some things yet to be put down, especially about Veranilda and its publication.

The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912

Veranilda unhappily, was no success; and if one must speak the truth, it was rightly a failure.

The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912

Without a doubt Frederic Harrison was extremely kind to George Gissing and perhaps to some little extent appreciated him, in spite of the preface he wrote in later years to the posthumous Veranilda.

The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912

The greatest tragedy of all, to my mind, is that final tragedy of Veranilda in which at last, after long years of toil in fiction while fiction was yet necessary to his livelihood, he was compelled by his training to put into the form of a novel a theme not fit for such treatment save in the hands of a native and easy story-teller.

The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912

Yet I do not believe Wells was sincere in the view he took of Veranilda as a work of art.

The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912

According to those who heard his delirious talk, it seems that all he did say had reference to Veranilda, the book about which he had been so anxious, and was never to finish.

The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912

Yet it is hard to speak without emotion and without pain of Veranilda.

The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912

There is, indeed, no such proof as Veranilda in the whole history of letters that the writer was not doing the work that his nature called for.

The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912

To what this was attributable no man can say with certainty, but it is a curious thing to reflect upon that Veranilda was concerned with the time of Gregory, and that Gissing been studying most minutely the history of the early Church in many ecclesiastical works.

The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912