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Intertextuality and Influence | Isa Blagden | 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... |
Leisure and Society | Queen Victoria | Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson
, Sir Walter Scott
, George Eliot
(whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin. 116 |
Leisure and Society | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Subscribers to the portrait included Gertrude Bell
, Arnold Bennett
, Rhoda Broughton
, Lucy Clifford
, Henry James
, Elizabeth Robins
, the Tennyson
s, Josephine Ward
, and Margaret Woods
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 272-3 Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Hester Helen Thackeray Fuller. Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie. J. Murray. 285-7 |
Leisure and Society | Dorothy Bussy | Dorothy's parents numbered among their friends and acquaintances many prominent artists, scientists, and politicians. These included Browning
, Ruskin
, Tennyson
, Jane
and Thomas Carlyle
, Francis Galton
, Percy Lubbock
, and John Tyndall |
Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind
against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence
the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer... |
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. xviii |
Literary responses | Menella Bute Smedley | Henry Buxton Forman
praised MBS
's poetry in his 1871 book of criticism on living poets. Classing her alongside Tennyson
and Jean Ingelow
in the Idyllic School, he nevertheless singled out her gift for... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Charles | By 1848, EC
was praised by such notable people as historian J. A. Froude
and Alfred Lord Tennyson
, who read her early manuscripts. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. 629 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 340 |
Literary responses | Menella Bute Smedley | A generation later A. H. Miles
declared that MBS
was by nature a poet. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge. 8: 328 Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge. 8: 328 |
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. |
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,... |
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