Alfred Tennyson

People in Cherry Garth think Denis strange and unladylike; Celia dissembles her jealousy, but does not forgive; Denis's only sympathiser is the Jewish farmer Octave Von Donop, a close friend of Tom's and another avowed...

Her writing, like Emily's, was profoundly influenced by nineteenth-century English writers and poets. LMM named Hemans and Byron in personal letters; Emily cites Tennyson and Wordsworth .

Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson and Wordsworth ; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray and Crabbe , and wrote several poems inspired...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

A Model and a Wife has a principal cast of three: John Herbert, a solitary English painter living in Rome in ill health; Nell Spencer, a young English heiress (once an abandoned orphan in India...

One of CG 's admirers was Tennyson , who was soon to become Poet Laureate. He re-told one of her tales in Idylls of the King.Matthew Arnold acknowledged her influence is his radically...

Edmund, narrator of this novel, is another old man: cautious, hierarchically minded, yet remembering his past as a young radical. He fell in love with Clarice de Vere —whose name recalls Tennyson 's Lady Clara...

The story of its publication has been told by Arthur Symons and Edmund Gosse , and their accounts reveal considerable English intervention to bring out the Indian aspects of her work. At the age of...

The final line invokes Wordsworth 's The Female Vagrant, andIB also echoes Thomas Hood 's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant...

Though the Feminist Companion says that Miss Silver is a character [i]n the mould of Agatha Christie 's Miss Marple, she actually predates Miss Marple by two years. She is a former governess who now...

At this date MB 's favourite poets (Shelley , Byron , Tennyson ) were all male.

This classic story opens with Rachel Treherne, unmarried and in her thirties, coming in a state of acute anxiety to consult Miss Silver at the latter's home, which is also her office. Rachel's colouring should...

Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson , Longfellow (used...

Cornford dedicated the book to the memory of her old friend and mentor,Sir Edward Marsh . She edited the book's contents, collecting, and in some cases revising, all the poems I wish to...

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...