Alfred Tennyson

CP 's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and John Ruskin . Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edmund Gosse . Among...

A year after AM published her Preludes, Tennyson invited her and her sister to his home at Aldworth in Berkshire, where he told her that he was hurt because she had not sent...

When she returned to London, she associated with a group of friends who regularly assembled at her home, including William Makepeace Thackeray and Alfred Tennyson .

Following her early conquest of Tennyson , AM went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan , Aubrey Beardsley (while he...

EC , however, ascribes the formative moments in her intellectual development to other sources. She counts among her early influences and inspirations writers Harriet Martineau and Anne Trelawny , and naturalist and artist Colonel Hamilton Smith

In 1859 Charles and Fanny visited the Tennyson family in the Isle of Wight, where, much to FK 's delight, Tennyson read her the whole of his poem Maud.

ATR travelled with her father's friend and soon hers, the photographer Julia Cameron . At Freshwater, she became a close companion of Alfred Tennyson .

Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen , Tennyson , Elizabeth Gaskell , and Eliza Meteyard , who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens

During their visits to London, the Brownings socialised with such prominent figures as John Ruskin , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Tennyson , Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti , and Charles Kingsley ....

LDG was an inspiration to several of her literary peers. George Meredith probably had her in mind in drawing his character Lady Dunstane in Diana of the Crossways. (His Lady Dunstane is a close...

Fictional portraits of MR have flowed in a steady stream, often adopting the colouring of later ages, as Tennyson 's MR in Dream of Fair Women, 1832, is a near-Victorian ideal, and Paula Vogel

Unlike the funerals of other royal servants, John Brown 's was a lavish affair, complete with a card on the coffin from the queen, which read, in her own handwriting: A tribute of loving, grateful...

Sir Henry Taylor , UT 's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready . Taylor's...

FTJ was a great-niece of the poet Tennyson .

George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm . The marriage apparently proved happy. The...