Beauchamp's Career (1875) is a novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself thought it his best novel, and the character Renée de Croisnel was his favourite of his creations.S. M. Ellis George Meredith: His Life and Friends in Relation to his Work (London: Grant Richards, 1920) p. 241; Alice Mary Butcher Memories of George Meredith (Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger, 2005) pp. 41-42. The Penguin Companion to Literature calls it "One of the finest political novels in English."David Daiches et al. (eds.) The Penguin Companion to Literature (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971) vol. 1, p. 358.
