Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. 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... |
| 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. 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 | 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 |
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