Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

For the founder of Swansea Tasmania see George Meredith (Tasmanian settler). His wife ran off with Wallis in 1858; George Meredith died three years later. At the age of 14 he was sent to a Moravian School in Neuwied Germany where he remained for two years.

For the founder of Swansea Tasmania see George Meredith (Tasmanian settler). This article is about the novelist.