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Textual Features | Agnes Maule Machar | The novel is set in the fictional United States mill town of Minton, where the eponymous hero establishes a radical workers' newspaper. The story advocates labour reforms as proposed by the Knights of Labour
... |
Textual Features | Laura Ormiston Chant | The volume's shorter independent pieces include sonnets. The 70-page Verona, about 1,600 lines of pentameter blank verse, treats the conflict between the title character and her fiancé, Adrian, over her commitment to raising personally... |
Textual Features | Constance Naden | The Elixir of Life opens with the waking vision of a man and woman in their summer prime, he looking like Apollo, she looking like an angel with just a touch of the siren or... |
Textual Features | Augusta Webster | Like much of AW
's later poetry, this inaugural volume shows the influence of Alfred Tennyson
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, as well as earlier poets such as John Keats
. Many poems here, including... |
Reception | Margery Lawrence | In his Foreword to the volume, Sir Shane Leslie
finds the influences of Shelley
, Yeats
, Tennyson
, Kipling
, Housman
, Chesterton
, and Fiona MacLeod
(pen-name of William Sharp). Yet according to... |
Reception | Jean Ingelow | Following the death of Tennyson
, JI
was considered for the position of Poet Laureate. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 35 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. |
Reception | Alice Meynell | |
Reception | Adelaide Procter | By 1877 AP
was said to be second only to Tennyson
in the sales of her work, and, as Bessie Rayner Belloc
said, her poems must have penetrated into every reading household in Great Britain... |
Reception | Elizabeth Siddal | He also nicknamed her Ida after Tennyson
's heroine in The Princess, and compared her pride to that of Scott
's Flora MacIvor. Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery. 14 |
Reception | Catherine Marsh | As mentioned above, Memorials of Captain Hedley Vicars, Ninety-Seventh Regiment was widely circulated, selling nearly eighty thousand copies in its first year. O’Rorke, Lucy. The Life and Friendships of Catherine Marsh. Longmans, Green & Co. 125 |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | Following her death, a committee which included Tennyson
, Arnold
, Robert Browning
, Margaret Oliphant
, T. H. Huxley
, and James Russell Lowell
was formed to devise a memorial to DMC
in Tewkesbury... |
Reception | Charlotte Brontë | On 4 July 1846, two anonymous reviews appeared of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell: one mildly positive by Sydney Dobell
in the Athenæum, and one enthusiastic in the Critic. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 497-8 |
Reception | Emily Brontë | Charlotte tried to promote the volume by sending copies to such authors as Wordsworth
, Tennyson
, De Quincey
, and Ebenezer Elliot
. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 8 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 499 |
Reception | A. Mary F. Robinson | The book was a critical success. Rumours spread that Tennyson
and Browning
had enjoyed reading it, and this made the young poet the talk of literary London. Robertson, Eric Sutherland. English Poetesses. Cassell. 376 |
Publishing | Sara Coleridge | SC
published a lengthy review (anonymous, according to custom) of Tennyson
's The Princess in the Quarterly Review. Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 1: 731 |
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