Alfred Tennyson

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Standard Name: Tennyson, Alfred
Used Form: Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning .
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago.
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Occupation Queen Victoria
Beyond her own activities, which included correspondence with several writers, especially Alfred Tennyson , QV was a devoted patron of the arts who not only fostered their development but also envisioned them as having a...
Occupation Margiad Evans
On leaving school at sixteen, Peggy Whistler (later ME ) went abroad to teach English, apparently some maths, and drawing at a school in Touraine in France: Cours Saint-Denis in Loches. She disliked this...
Occupation George Meredith
GM received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature . In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson as president of...
Occupation Violet Fane
Mary Montgomerie Lamb (later known as VF ) made her professional entry into the world of literature under her birth name as the creator of etchings to illustrate a leaflet reprint at Worthing of Tennyson 's Mariana.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Literary responses Cecil Frances Alexander
Tennyson is reputed to have envied CFA the writing of The Burial of Moses, as well as The Legend of Stumpie's Brae.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Critic Séan McMahon believes the latter ballad to be the best...
Literary responses Annie S. Swan
Helen C. Black reported that ASS carefully preserved a letter of praise from Tennyson about A Victory Won—but, as with Swan's letter from Gladstone, she must have got the wrong novel, since Tennyson had...
Literary responses Alice Meynell
AM later condemned her early preludes, but the book received praise from Tennyson , Aubrey Thomas de Vere , and Ruskin , who thought A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age,...
Literary responses Robert Browning
This series was at least the catalyst for the first direct contact between RB and his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett , since she praised it in Lady Geraldine's Courtship, which she included in her...
Literary responses Anna Swanwick
Again she received her fan letters. Max Müller (a friend) and Oliver Wendell Holmes both read this book with delight, and a son of Tennyson reported that the Poet Laureate had left it open where...
Literary responses Eliza Cook
John Westland Marston , reviewing anonymously for the Athenæum, contrasted EC unfavourably with Tennyson but said that while we cannot credit Miss Cook with much imagination or with any striking power to copy reality...
Literary responses Jean Ingelow
A response from Tennyson to this early work found promise in the young poet. Though he did identify some flaws, he explained that if the book were not so good I should not care for...
Literary responses Charlotte Yonge
The Daisy Chain's popularity was long-lasting, though not so intense as that of The Heir of Redclyffe. Jane Austen 's nephew James Austen-Leigh compared it to the work of Austen and Scott ...
Literary responses Charlotte Yonge
This is probably the novel of which an anecdote is told of Tennyson on holiday, tramping all day across the rugged terrain of Dartmoor with his nose in a CY book.
Georgina Battiscombe thinks that...
Literary responses Eliza Ogilvy
One critic felt that Mrs. Ogilvy is among those who have listened too long and too submissively to Tennyson and the BrowningsRobert Browning .
Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
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