Augustus then moved to London where he married his house-keeper, with whom he had apparently been living for some time in Portsmouth. Meredith attended two boarding schools in England, and when he was fourteen his father sent him to the Moravian Brothers school at Neuwied on the Rhine, where he remained for two years. Because Meredith was extremely reluctant in his later years to discuss his youth, not much is known about the effect his childhood experiences had on him as an adult. According to his biographer Lionel Stevenson, late in his life he did mention that "I was a very timid and sensitive boy. I was frightened of everything; I could not endure to be left alone."
In 1846, just before Meredith turned eighteen, his father had him articled as a law clerk to Richard Charnock, a London solicitor. Having interests other than practicing or teaching law, Charnock provided him with practically no legal training, which did not disappoint Meredith, who had no desire to be a solicitor. While he was articled Meredith joined a coterie of young writers with whom Charnock associated, and it was at this time that he began his writing career.
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