Alfred Tennyson

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

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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.
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Although Miles faulted her earlier poems for their tendency to mysticism,
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge.
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he claimed that many of her...
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...
Occupation Charlotte Guest
Another occupation of her later years was a printing press which she set up at Canford. Among its productions were two poems by Tennyson .
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1833–1852. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, John Murray.
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Occupation Lewis Carroll
He was also an early photographer of some note, who took portraits of John Ruskin , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and Alfred Lord Tennyson .
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company.
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.
Occupation Camilla Crosland
She worked a number of jobs that included teaching (she was a governess who attended her pupils by the day and did not live in), jewelry-making, and needlework. In the 1840s she was making about...
politics Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle
politics Queen Victoria
Tennyson had a closer personal relationship than any other writer with the Queen. QV and her court appointed him Poet Laureate on 19 November 1850. Following Prince Albert 's death and the Queen's deepened appreciation...
politics Emily Davies
ED 's petition was a request for funding to establish a College for women. It was signed by 521 teachers of girls and 175 others, including Robert Browning , George Grote , Thomas Huxley ,...
Author summary Charlotte Barnard
CB was a balladeer and poet who composed music for songs written by herself and by others such as Alfred Tennyson and Charlotte Brontë . Over the span of eleven years she composed about a...

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