Alfred Tennyson

She also furthered her own education by early-morning visits to the library, sometimes permitted though sometimes stopped, during which she read everything I could lay hands on, including Tennyson , Matthew Arnold , Swift 's...

Even during the years of the detested Southsea school RK was developing an appreciation for literature. He writes of being surprised when reading (something Mrs Holloway forced him to do under threat of punishment) turned...

WP 's next school was one run at Eastbourne by a Miss Quill, and which she and her sister attended as day-girls. The school was selected by the great-aunt to whose house they were sent...

The most important publication of the Victoria Press to the history of women's printing and publishing is undoubtedly The Victoria Regia (1861). This literary gift book, edited by Adelaide Procter and dedicated by permission to...

The volume is dedicated to Tennyson and his wife Emily .

To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing...

Biographers have tended to adopt Robert Browning's scornful skepticism of the spiritualist movement, but it was not a fringe phenomenon. EBB was, historian Alex Owen argues, characteristic of those attracted to spiritualism by its deeply...

Early Blossoms, A Collection of Poems Written Between Eight and Fifteen Years of Age, published in 1840 with a memoir of FH at the price of a shilling, actually reprinted the text of FH